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IN RE DEARBORN MARINE SERVICE, INC.

No. 72-2704.

499 F.2d 263 (1974)

In the Matter of the Complaint of DEARBORN MARINE SERVICE, INC., et al., for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability of the OIL SCREW CARRYBACK. Webster Barnwell ARMSTRONG, III, Individually, Etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CHAMBERS & KENNEDY et al., Defendants-Appellees-Appellants, Esther M. LOVE, Intervenor-Appellant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 22, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Roch, Houston, Tex., for Esther Marie Love.

T. G. Schirmeyer, L. Glen Kratochvil, Houston, Tex., for Dearborn, Thoroughbred, et al.

Edward W. Watson, Houston, Tex., for Chapman Contracting.

Alice Giessel, Henry Giessel, Houston, Tex., for Drilling Eng.

W. Eugene Davis, New Iberia, La., Donald L. King, New Orleans, La., for Chambers & Kennedy, et al.

John N. Barnhart, Houston, Tex., for Lucille Monk et al.

Warner F. Brock, Houston, Tex., for Armstrong.

Carl Waldman, Ned Johnson, Beaumont, Tex., for Gaspard, Breaux et al.

William D. Hunter, Morgan City, La., for Cassel.

George B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., for Hartford.

H. Lee Leonard, Lafayette, La., for Employers Reins. Corp.

Wm. P. Rutledge, Lafayette, La., O. H. Deshotels, Jr., Kaplan, La., for Melancon et al.

Emile A. Carmouche, Crowley, La., Blake Tartt, Houston Tex., Edward W. Watson, Galveston, Tex., for Chapman and Home Indem. Co.

Before AINSWORTH, GODBOLD and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated litigation arises out of an offshore oil platform explosion that occurred May 28, 1970, over the outer Continental Shelf and caused extensive property damage and loss of human life on the platform and on a nearby vessel. The normal complexities engendered by such a holocaust are multiplied by the part-platform, part-admiralty factual context which necessitates meshing together the law of admiralty and the state law made the...

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