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HICKS v. OCEAN DRILLING AND EXPLORATION COMPANY

No. 73-2169.

512 F.2d 817 (1975)

Clyde E. HICKS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OCEAN DRILLING AND EXPLORATION COMPANY, Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee, H. B. BUSTER HUGHES, INC., Third Party Defendant-Appellant. Hester GOFORTH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OCEAN DRILLING AND EXPLORATION CO., et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees, H. B. Buster Hughes, Inc., Defendant-Appellant. Charles Norman GLOVER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OCEAN DRILLING EXPLORATION CO., et al., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees, H. B. Buster Hughes, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester Francipane, Wayne H. Scheuermann, Metairie, La., for Buster Hughes.

James F. Holmes, New Orleans, La., for Ocean Drilling.

Arthur F. Dumaine, John M. Lawrence, New Orleans, La., Salvador E. Gutierrez, Jr., Arabi, La., for Clyde Hicks.

A. Remy Fransen, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Hester Goforth & Charles Glover.

Before JONES, THORNBERRY and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.

JONES, Circuit Judge:

A New Orleans shipbuilder, Higgins, Inc., constructed at its shipyard on the Industrial Canal in that city, for Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, herein called ODECO, a submersible oil storage facility which became known as the Round Barge. This facility is made up of a superstructure two hundred feet in length and fifty-four feet in width constructed approximately forty feet above cylindrical storage tanks fourteen and one-half feet in...

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