Legal Opinion
Daughdrill v. Ocean Drilling & Exploration Co.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided December 30, 1988No. Civ. A. No. 85-5559PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER & REASONS
MENTZ, District Judge.
This is an action brought by Hubbard Daughdrill, a toolpusher employed by Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO), to recover damages he sustained while being transferred from ODECO’s drilling rig, the OCEAN EXPLORER, to the deck of the M/Y AMERICAN RIVER, a crewboat owned and operated by Trico Marine, Inc. (Trico). Daughdrill claimed that ODECO was negligent under the Jones Act in, inter alia, failing to properly operate the crane which lowered Daughd-rill from ODECO’s drilling rig to Trico’s crewboat. Daughdrill’s claim against Trico was brought…
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