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KLEIN v. CONTINENTAL-EMSCO

No. 29750.

445 F.2d 629 (1971)

H. W. KLEIN, Successor in Interest to Dixie Drilling Company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL-EMSCO, a division of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Dunn, Wyckoff, Russell & Dunn, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

B. Jeff Crane, Jr., Vinson, Elkins, Searls & Connally, Houston, Tex., and David Kreager, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, John D. Rienstra, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee Continental-Emsco.

Charles S. Pipkin, Courtlyn M. Rea, Strong, Pipkin, Nelson, Parker & Powers, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee Westinghouse Air Brake Co.

James W. Mehaffy, Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee General Electric Corp.

Before GOLDBERG, GODBOLD, and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is a products liability suit involving property damage to an oil drilling rig located near Woodville, Texas. In March of 1966 the massive traveling block of a drilling rig owned by Dixie Drilling Company struck the crown block assembly and fell 140 feet to the rig floor, killing a crew member and causing extensive damage to the rig. This accident engendered a wrongful death action filed by the widow of the deceased crewman. Prior to the...

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