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WEST v. KERR-McGEE CORP.

No. 84-3458.

765 F.2d 526 (1985)

Hartland Dean WEST, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KERR-McGEE CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl J. Hebert, A. Gill Dyer, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Christopher Tompkins, Ethel H. Cohen, New Orleans, La., for Kerr-McGee & Home Ind.

Timothy F. Burr, New Orleans, La., for Cabot Corp.

Robert B. Nolan, New Orleans, La., for Case Pomroy & Felmont.

Before GEE, TATE, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Hartland Dean West, injured in an explosion on an offshore oil platform, sued Kerr-McGee Corporation, the platform operator and majority owner, along with three companies that held minority interests in the platform. The district court filed a thoughtful opinion granting Kerr-McGee's motion for summary judgment on the ground that West was Kerr-McGee's borrowed employee, and that Kerr-McGee thus enjoyed tort immunity under the...

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