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BROWN SERVICES, INC. v. FAIRBROTHER

No. 13-88-289-CV.

776 S.W.2d 772 (1989)

BROWN SERVICES, INC., Appellant, v. Thomas W. FAIRBROTHER, JR., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Allbritton, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, for appellant.

Robert G. Taylor, II, Houston, for appellee.

Before SEERDEN, UTTER, and KENNEDY, JJ.

OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

Appellee was injured while working to modify the derrick of a jack-up drilling barge in the territorial waters of Trinidad. The issues on appeal relate to his remedies.

Appellee sued his employer (appellant, Brown Services), Reading and Bates Drilling Co., which operated the jack-up rig, and Amoco Trinidad Oil Co., which had hired Reading to drill offshore wells, among others. Reading had contracted with appellant to modify...

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