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ROBIN v. SUN OIL CO.

No. 75-1382.

548 F.2d 554 (1977)

Ethel M. ROBIN, in her own name and as personal representative of the Estate of Harry J. Robin, and for the use and benefit of her minor child, Brett M. Robin, Plaintiff, v. SUN OIL COMPANY, Defendant, Cross-Claimant Defendant in Cross-Claim, Appellant. TELEDYNE MOVIBLE OFFSHORE, INC., Third-Party Defendant, Cross-Claimant and Appellant, v. TIDEX, INC. and Tidewater Grand Isle, Inc., Defendants, Third-Party Plaintiffs, Defendants in Cross-Claim, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Hanemann, Houma, La., for appellant.

George W. Healy, III, Thomas J. Wagner, Whitfield F. Fitzpatrick, New Orleans, La., for Tidewater Grand Isle.

Before MORGAN and GEE, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge:

This appeal in which theories of initial, contingent and secondary liabilities were originally asserted, arises out of a drowning death off an offshore stationary fixed drilling platform located in the Gulf of Mexico on the Outer Continental Shelf. Petitioner, as the widow and representative of the estate of deceased, brought the law suit against Sun Oil and Tidex to recover damages for wrongful death. Sun owned the platform....

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