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McILWAIN v. PLACID OIL COMPANY

No. 72-2387. Summary Calendar.

472 F.2d 248 (1973)

Lankford J. McILWAIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PLACID OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.K. Christovich, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Reginald T. Badeaux, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

John R. Peters, Jr., New Orleans, La., for McDermott.

Before GEWIN, AINSWORTH and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

In December of 1969 Lankford Mc-Ilwain unexpectedly plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico and was seriously injured when a section of the grated deck of an offshore drilling platform upon which he was working gave way beneath his feet. At the time Mcllwain was a seaman employed by the Penrod Drilling Company (Penrod); his crew had been assigned to work on the offshore platform in order to fulfill a drilling contract Penrod had made with the Placid...

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