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TUCKER v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION

No. 30062.

445 F.2d 390 (1971)

Joseph C. TUCKER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis R. Boisfontaine, Edward P. Lobman, of Sessions, Fishman, Rosenson, Snellings & Boisfontaine, New Orleans, La., for Bethlehem Steel Corp.

Chester A. Eggleston, T. A. of Slavich & Eggleston, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Sam A. LeBlanc, III, Donald V. Organ, Donald M. Pierce, New Orleans, La., Wilson C. Krebs, Patterson, La., for other interested parties.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, WISDOM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

Joseph Tucker was injured while welding on an oil drilling barge which was being built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation for Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. He was employed by an independent contractor doing work for Kerr-McGee.

The case was tried to a jury. In answer to interrogatories the jury found that Bethlehem was negligent, that its negligence was the proximate cause of Tucker's injury, that neither Kerr-McGee nor Tucker was negligent...

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