BENJAMIN v. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO. OF AMERICA

Civ. A. No. G-92-118.

793 F.Supp. 729 (1992)

Joe and Viola BENJAMIN, Individually and as Representatives of the Estate of Otis Ray Benjamin, Plaintiffs, v. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE COMPANY OF AMERICA and Brown & Root, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Galveston Division.

June 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zandra Anderson, O'Quinn Kerensky & McAninoh, Houston, Tex., for Joe and Viola Benjamin, individually and as representatives of the estate of Otis Ray Benjamin.

Dennis M. Dylewski, John L. Verner, Walter Perry Zivley, Jr., Calvin, Dylewski, Gibbs, Maddox & Verner, P.C., Houston, Tex., S. Gene Fendler, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for Natural Gas Pipeline.

Robert Ellison Meadows, Houston, J. James Cooper, Sewell & Riggs, Houston, Tex., for Brown & Root, Inc.


ORDER

KENT, District Judge.

On this date came on to be heard Plaintiffs' Motion for Remand (Instrument # 6), Defendant Brown & Root's Opposition (Instrument # 13), and Plaintiffs' Response (Instrument # 14). Plaintiffs are the parents of Otis Ray Benjamin, who was killed when the vessel in which he was a passenger struck a natural gas pipeline and exploded in Texas waters. Plaintiffs filed this case in state court seeking recovery under the general maritime...

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