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MURPHY v. GEORGIA-PAC. CORP.

No. 78-2165.

628 F.2d 862 (1980)

Ralph E. MURPHY, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Ates, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant cross-appellee.

Vincent P. Fornias and Paul H. Spaht, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees cross-appellants.

Before GOLDBERG, GARZA and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

We journey today into the mysterious realm of Merlin, as we are faced with a valiant attempt at legal sleight of hand. Attorneys for defendants have used all the magic dust and abracadabras they could muster in order to change a paper manufacturing company into a construction company. Not satisfied with this first attempt at prestidigitation, for their next trick defendants tried to make the Erie Doctrine vanish into thin air. We find...

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