MARATHON PIPE LINE v. DRILLING RIG ROWAN/ODESSA

No. 81-3779.

699 F.2d 240 (1983)

MARATHON PIPE LINE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. DRILLING RIG ROWAN/ODESSA, Rowan Companies, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, v. Tug El Zorro Grande, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Sun Oil Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adams & Reese, James E. Blazek, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., James E. Wright, III, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Henry J. Read, New Orleans, La., for Marathon Pipe Line.

Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & O'Bannon, P. Albert Bienvenu, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Sun Oil and Sun Gas.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Richard N. Dicharry, George W. Healy, III, New Orleans, La., for Twenty Grand Offshore, Inc. and Tidewater Marine Towing, Inc.

Liskow & Lewis, Charles M. Steen, New Orleans, La., for John E. Chance & Associates, Inc.

Before JOHNSON, WILLIAMS and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

We AFFIRM on the basis of the opinion of the district court, 527 F.Supp. 824, with the additional finding which follows.

The district court did not discuss in its opinion an issue which has been raised by the Rowan Companies in its appeal. At the outset of the trial the district court ordered the sequestration of the witnesses, including Mr. Robert G. McCary, who was the person placed in charge of the moving...

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