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HOLDEN v. PLACID OIL CO.

Civ. A. Nos. 75-3236, 75-3333, 76-2442, 76-2799, 79-2261 and 80-4078.

512 F.Supp. 644 (1981)

Mrs. Linda Harper HOLDEN, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of the Estates of her minor children, Melvin Scott Holden, Sandra Kay Holden and Blake Alan Holden et al, Plaintiffs, v. PLACID OIL COMPANY et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

March 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burke & Ballard, Maurice C. Hebert, Jr., Lawrence E. Abbot, Dean A. Sutherland, T. A. Hebert, Abbot & Horack, New Orleans, La., for Placid Oil Co. and Hartford Acc. and Indem. Co.; Armand A. Guiterrez, Dallas, Tex., of counsel.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Donald L. King, New Orleans, La., H. Lee Leonard, Voorhies & Labbe, Lafayette, La., for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. and Harbor Ins. Co.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Gelpi, Sullivan, Carroll & LaBorde, Gerald T. Gelpi, Norman C. Sullivan, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Republic Steel Corp. and Travelers Ins. Co.

Seale, Sledge & Ross, Stephen C. Sledge, Hammond, La., Haydn S. Bercy, Livingston, La., Paul H. Due, Baton Rouge, La., Adams & Reese, Robert A. Vosbien, Martzell & Montero, Charles W. Dittmer, New Orleans, La., for National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Caffery, Duhe, Oubre & Gibbens, John M. Duhe, Jr., John Blackwell, New Iberia, La., for Gulf Coast Machine & Sup. Co.

Normann & Normann, Charles E. Leche, Tyler S. Posey, New Orleans, La., for T. K. Valve & Mfg., Inc. and Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.

CASSIBRY, District Judge:

REASONS

This is the latest chapter in the lengthy litigation which resulted from an explosion of a pipeline on a fixed platform in the Gulf of Mexico in September of 1975. It appears that the explosion was caused when a valve in the pipeline ruptured. The explosion killed three workmen who were near the pipeline at the time of the explosion.

Within one year after the accident the decedents' respective survivors initiated...

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