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PARKS v. DOWELL DIV. OF DOW CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 82-2213.

712 F.2d 154 (1983)

Bill PARKS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DOWELL DIVISION OF DOW CHEMICAL CORPORATION and Reading and Bates Petroleum Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Marshall, Robert M. Roach, Jr., Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Russell H. McMains, Anthony F. Constant, Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before INGRAHAM, WILLIAMS and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

A vessel owner and an offshore drilling contractor appeal from a money judgment entered after a bench trial finding them jointly and severally liable for injuries suffered by an employee of the well operator from a fire aboard a drilling tender. Reading and Bates Petroleum Company and Dowell Division of Dow Chemical Corp. urge that the judgment is flawed in (1) applying maritime law rather than Louisiana law; and in finding that: (2) Parks was a Robison...

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