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REEVES v. B & S WELDING, INC.

No. 88-3831.

897 F.2d 178 (1990)

James REEVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. B & S WELDING, INC., and Exxon Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Galuszka, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Elliott G. Courtright and Robert H. Wood, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Exxon Corp.

David F. Bienvenu and J.B. Treuting, New Orleans, La., for B & S Welding, Inc.

Before POLITZ, KING and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This case arises out of an accident and injury aboard an offshore gas production platform. The district court rendered judgment against Appellant James Reeves, who was injured in the accident. We are called upon to review the district court's findings of fact and the court's conclusion that Texas law applies because appellee Exxon Corp's. platform in the High Island Field is "adjacent" to Texas for purposes of the Outer Continental...

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