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SMITH PETROLEUM SERVICE, INC. v. MONSANTO CHEMICAL CO.

No. 26137.

420 F.2d 1103 (1970)

SMITH PETROLEUM SERVICE, INC., Appellant, v. MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY et al., Appellees. MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. SMITH PETROLEUM SERVICE, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 7, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Junior O'Mara, Jackson, Miss., for appellant-appellee, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Joe H. Daniel, L. F. Sams, Jr., Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell, Jackson, Miss., for appellees-appellants.

Before COLEMAN and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges, and SKELTON, Judge of the Court of Claims.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity case involving indemnity between Mississippi tortfeasors, we consider the landward thrust of the admiralty doctrine enunciated in Ryan.1 Even with sextant and compass we are unable to sight any estuary leading to Ryan. Looking to the law of Mississippi, we find Ryan rejected and indemnity denied.

This case originated as a wrongful death action growing out of an oil...

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