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SMITH v. ZELLERBACH

No. 84-CA-1045.

486 So.2d 798 (1986)

Betty Thornton SMITH, et al. v. Crown ZELLERBACH, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied June 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn P. Marcel, Baton Rouge, for plaintiffs-appellees Betty Thornton Smith, et al.

William A. Norfolk, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants Crown Zellerbach Corp. and Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh.

Richard G. Creed, Jr., Baton Rouge, for intervenor-appellee Chicago Bridge and Iron Co.

Boris F. Navratil, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants Kamyr Installations, Inc. and Fireman's Ins. Co. of Newark, N.J.

Before EDWARDS, LANIER and J.S. COVINGTON, JJ.

EDWARDS, Judge.

This is a wrongful death case brought by the surviving spouse and two sons of Ernest Smith. The deceased was employed by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (Chicago, CBI) on June 4, 1979, when a twenty-foot piece of angle iron fell and struck him in the head. Smith was working as a painter at the Crown Zellerbach (CZ or Crown) paper mill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, on part of Crown's mill modernization.

CZ had contracted with Kamyr, Inc. for the design...

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