SARAN INDUSTRIES, INC. v. MARATHON OIL CO.

No. 80-3022.

666 F.2d 85 (1981)

SARAN INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. GLIDDEN COATINGS & RESINS, DIVISION OF SCM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Penick, New Orleans La., Ralph S. Hubbard, III, New Orleans La., for Marathon.

Sam A. LeBlanc, Philip A. Franco, New Orleans La., for Saran Industries.

Allen F. Campbell, Christopher Tompkins, Howard L. Murphy, New Orleans, La., for Glidden.

Before COLEMAN, REAVLEY and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this action for the breach of a contract for the application of paint to an offshore platform there was a trial which ran along for over three weeks. At its conclusion the jury was presented with no less than nineteen interrogatories. The lawsuit had degenerated into a cyclone of claims and counterclaims, factual and legal, some of them outside the scope of the pleadings and the pretrial order. The way things turned out, the jury awarded Saran damages...

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