LeBLANC v. TWO-R DRILLING CO.

No. 74-3268.

527 F.2d 1316 (1976)

Charles P. LeBLANC, Plaintiff, v. TWO-R DRILLING COMPANY, Defendant Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GULF COAST CASING CREWS, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee, Highlands Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Hanemann, Philip E. Henderson, Houma, La., for defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant.

W. K. Christovich, New Orleans, La., for Highlands Ins. Co.

John R. Martzell, New Orleans, La., for LeBlanc.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This might be the last voyage of the now obsolete and statutorily drydocked judge-made legal principle for indemnity for breach of the WWLP.1 Such third-party complaint is but one leg of the once familiar triangular law suit between the troika of suitors, Sieracki seaman v. shipowner v. maritime contractor.2 Ryan Stevedoring Company v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation...

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