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BENJAMIN v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORP.

No. 11421.

396 So.2d 332 (1981)

Samuel L. BENJAMIN v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Elgin-Joliet-Eastern Railroad, Illinois Central Railroad and New Orleans Public Belt Railroad.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 20, 1981.

Writ Denied June 5, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberts & Katz, Bradford R. Roberts, II, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, Wiley G. Lastrapes, Jr., New Orleans, for United States Steel Corp., defendant-appellee.

Dillon & Cambre, Gerard M. Dillon, Georges M. Legrand, New Orleans, for Illinois Central Railroad, defendant-appellee.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Warren M. Schultz, Jr., New Orleans, for New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, defendant-appellant.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA, SCHOTT, GARRISON and CHEHARDY, JJ.

GARRISON, Judge.

Two circumstances of potential legal complication originated with this case, growing as it did out of Samuel Benjamin's leg injuries received while working with steel beams in a railroad car in New Orleans. The first potential complication involved the multiplicity of other initial defendants with arguable causation roles —in connection with the shipment of the steel from Chicago down to New Orleans —prior to that of the New Orleans...

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