VERRETT v. OFFSHORE CREWS, INC.

No. 10606.

332 So.2d 292 (1976)

Hilton VERRETT, Sr. v. OFFSHORE CREWS, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion May 10, 1976.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1976.

Writ Refused September 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertrand M. Cass, Jr., New Orleans, and Bernard E. Boudreaux, Jr., Franklin, and Leonard A. Radlauer, New Orleans, for Offshore Crews.

Timothy J. McNamara, Lafayette, for Walker-Huthnance Offshore Co.

Before LANDRY, BLANCHE, COVINGTON, CHAISSON and PONDER, JJ.


PONDER, Judge.

Plaintiff, Hilton A. Verrett, Sr., a seaman, filed suit to recover for injuries he sustained allegedly caused by the negligence of defendants in allowing spillage of industrial waste from an offshore oil platform to blow down onto the deck of a boat, the PATHFINDER, which was moored to a drilling platform, located in excess of fifty miles from the coast of Louisiana on the Outer Continental Shelf. He alleges...

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