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SOHYDE DRILL. & MARINE v. COASTAL STATES GAS PROD.

No. 78-2817.

644 F.2d 1132 (1981)

SOHYDE DRILLING & MARINE CO. and Sohyde Drilling & Exploration Co., whose name has been changed to Spade Drilling & Exploration Co., Plaintiffs, v. COASTAL STATES GAS PRODUCING CO., Defendant-3rd Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOHYDE DRILLING & MARINE CO. and Sohyde Drilling & Exploration Co. (Sohyde Drilling & Workovers, Inc.), name changed to Spade Drilling & Exploration Co. and Market Insurance Co., 3rd Party Defendants-Appellants, The Travelers Insurance Co., 3rd Party Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Porteous, III, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Monroe & Lemann, William J. Hamlin and Benjamin R. Slater, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant-3rd party plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, AINSWORTH and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 23, 1981.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, Sohyde Drilling and Marine Co. (Sohyde) and others, appeal from an adverse judgment by the District Court which found them liable to Appellee, Coastal States Gas Producing Co. (Coastal), for property damages arising out of the blowout of Coastal's high pressure gas well. The blowout occurred while Sohyde was performing workover operations on the well aboard its...

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