ROBERIE v. SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY

No. 3442.

252 So.2d 488 (1971)

Roy ROBERIE, Plaintiff and Appellee-Appellant, v. SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY et al., Defendants and Appellants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearings Denied September 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christovich & Kearney by A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants-appellees.

Daniel J. McGee, Mamou, Andrew Vidrine, Church Point, as co-counsel for plaintiff-appellee-appellant.

Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe by Timothy J. McNamara and Robert L. Cabes, Lafayette, Lewis & Lewis by John M. Shaw, Opelousas, for defendant-appellee-appellant.

Guillory, Guillory & Guillory by A. Frank McGee, Eunice, Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips by Frank M. Coates, Jr., Baton Rouge, Voorhies, Labbe, Fontenot, Leonard & McGlasson by H. Lee Leonard, Lafayette, Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin by William O. Bonin, New Iberia, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, SAVOY and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.


DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

Plaintiff, Roy Roberie, was employed by Ashy Construction Company, Inc. as an oiler on a dragline. On December 31, 1965 he and the dragline operator, Harry Hawkins, were sent to back-fill an abandoned drilling site on which Rowan Drilling Company, Inc. had drilled a dry well. Rowan had drilled the well under a contract with Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, and the latter was operating under a mineral lease obtained through an agent, James E. Grady...

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