CASACELI v. MARTECH INTERN., INC.

No. 84-4452.

774 F.2d 1322 (1985)

Dolores Bodd CASACELI, Individually & as representative of succession of Joseph Stanley Bodd, etc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MARTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC., et al., Defendants, Trans Ocean Contractors, Inc. and Cheramie Bo-Truc # 11, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen, Gooch, Bourgeois, Breaux & Robison, P.C., Randall K. Theunissen, Lafayette, La., for Trans Ocean.

Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, James R. Carter, Glenn R. Adams, New Orleans, La., for Cheramie.

Morrow & Morrow, James P. Ryan, Opelousas, La., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, RANDALL and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Chief Judge:

Transocean Contractors, Inc., and the CHERAMIE BO-TRUC # 11 appeal the judgments against them in an action for damages resulting from the death of a diver, Joseph Bodd. Bodd drowned during an attempt to repair the CHERAMIE BO-TRUC while it was docked in a slip owned by Transocean. Because the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdicts against the appellants, we reverse.

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Joseph Bodd, an employee of Martech International...

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