ZAPATA HAYNIE CORP. v. ARTHUR

No. 91-4432.

980 F.2d 287 (1992)

ZAPATA HAYNIE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francis ARTHUR, et al., Defendants, Mary King-Hill, etc., Margaret Hebert Jackson, etc., and Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Lillie Mae Willis, Mrs. Gussie Mae Jackson, etc., Linda Benjamin, etc., Francis McNeal Gough, Billie McDougle, etc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Keaty, Michel P. Wilty, Keaty & Keaty, Lafayette, La., for Gussie M. Jackson.

Ulysses G. Thibodeaux, Newman & Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, La., for McDougle.

J.J. McKernan, Farley Grissett, Friedman, Chernan & Gold, Houston, Tex., for Gough.

Larry A. Roach, Lake Charles, La., for Benjamin.

Charles Raleigh Newman, Bernard H. McLaughlin, Jr., Raleigh Newman, Lake Charles, La., for Willis.

J.B. Jones, Jr., Jennifer J. Bercier, Jones, Jones & Alexander, Cameron, La., for King-Hill.

Donald R. Abaunza, S. Gene Fendler, David W. Leefe, Don K. Haycraft, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for Natural Gas.

John P. Napolitano, Jr., Lawrence E. Abbott, Deborah D. Kuchler, Abbott, Best & Meeks, New Orleans, La., Gano Lemoine, Lafayette La., S. Gene Fendler, Donald R. Abaunza, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., Jerry McKernan, Baton Rouge, La., C. Arthur Rutter, Jr., Norfolk, Va., John L. Verner, Calvin, Dylewski, Gibbs, Maddox, Russell & Verner, Houston, Tex., Louis St. Martin, Nick Pizzolatto, Jr., Larry A. Roach, Clifford L. Newman, Lake Charles, La., Ronald A. Johnson, Edward S. Johnson, Johnson & McAlpine, New Orleans, La., for Zapata Haynie Corp.

Before JOLLY and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, District Judge:


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 28, 1993.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we review the district court's judgment exonerating Zapata Haynie Corporation from liability for injuries and damages resulting from the collision of its vessel, the F/V NORTHUMBERLAND, with a natural gas pipeline owned by Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America ("NGP"). We find no reversible error, and therefore...

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