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LASSEIGNE v. NIGERIAN GULF OIL COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 4432.

397 F.Supp. 465 (1975)

Avie LASSEIGNE, Plaintiff, v. NIGERIAN GULF OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. McDERMOTT TRADE CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation and the Travelers Insurance Company, a Connecticut corporation, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

June 30, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Warren Green, Newark, Del., Bob F. Wright, Domengeauz & Wright, Lafayette, La., for plaintiff.

Samuel R. Russell, Wilson & Russell, Wilmington, Del., for defendant and third-party plaintiff.

OPINION AND ORDER

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

Issues presented by defendant Nigerian Gulf Oil Company's motion for summary judgment in this tort action under general maritime law brought on the "law side" of the District Court1 are: 1) Whether a rigger-employee of an independent contractor who owned a derrick barge operating in navigable waters can maintain a maritime tort action against the party with whom his employer...

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