Legal Opinion
Gele v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 28, 1980No. 79-1426PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:
This maritime collision case comes to us for a second time, having previously been remanded by another panel of this court for an allocation of comparative fault among the parties. Gele v. Chevron Oil Co., 574 F.2d 243 (5th Cir. 1978). George Gele1 was injured on the night of May 29, 1971, when the pleasure craft in which he was riding, TIKI TOO, collided with an eighteen-inch diameter, dark metal flare pipe protruding ten to fifteen feet above the water about 100 yards away from a Chevron gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The flare pipe was neither lighted…
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3Cited by45 opinions
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