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OLSEN v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 75-4019.

561 F.2d 1178 (1977)

Mary OLSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross Appellee, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants, v. ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor-Appellant. Christine W. CARVIN, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross Appellee, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. TELEDYNE MOVIBLE OFFSHORE, INC., et al., Third Party Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants, v. ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor-Appellant. Frank Winston BOOKER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants. Gordon Davis WALLACE, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross Appellee, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants, v. ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor-Appellant. ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross Appellee, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 1, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. P. Rutledge, Lafayette, La., for Olsen, et al.

Joel L. Borrello, New Orleans, La., for Argonaut Ins. Co.

Donald A. Hoffman, New Orleans, La., for Pacific Employers Ins. Co.

John O. Charrier, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Shell Oil Co.

W. K. Christovich, Charles W. Schmidt, III, New Orleans, La., for Teledyne Movible.

Francis G. Weller, New Orleans, La., for Wiegand Co. & Thermo-Disc, Inc., other interested parties.

Patrick T. Caffery, New Iberia, La., for Texsteam Corp.

W. Eugene Davis, New Iberia, La., for plaintiff-appellant cross appellee.

Before GOLDBERG and FAY, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 1, 1977.

FAY, Circuit Judge:

The controversy before this court is factually complex and presents some novel questions of law. It pertains to the explosion of an electric water heater in the living quarters on a drilling platform on the Outer Continental Shelf. The question is whether there is liability of the platform owner, Shell Oil Company, to some of those people who were either injured or killed as a result...

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