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DUGAS v. PELICAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.

No. 72-2546.

481 F.2d 773 (1973)

Lloyd DUGAS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PELICAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees, Rowan Drilling Company and Union Oil Company of California, Defendants-Appellants, Tri-State Insurance Company et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied July 5, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. K. Christovich, New Orleans, La., for Rowan Drilling Co.

George V. Baus, Harold A. Thomas, New Orleans, La., for Union Oil Co.

H. Alva Brumfield, III, Baton Rouge, La., for Dugas.

Nicholls Pugh, Jr., Lafayette, La., for Pelican Constr. Co., Inc., and others.

Clarence A. Frost, New Orleans, La., for Pelican.

Donald M. Pierce, New Orleans, La., for Market.

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

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

Lloyd Dugas, a roustabout employed by Pelican Construction Company, Inc., brought this suit for damages growing out of personal injury sustained aboard a submersible drilling barge, ROWAN NO. 1, owned by Rowan Drilling Company and located on navigable waters at Northeast Patterson Prospect Field, south of Morgan City, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.

Union Oil Company of California had contracted with Rowan for the drilling of an oil...

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