Signal Oil & Gas Co. v. Barge W-701

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal marks the second time this sad affair of a ruptured pipeline has been before this court. A bifurcated trial was ordered below, and the liability findings and conclusions were affirmed per curiam in an unpublished opinion by a panel of this court in 1976. The decision rendered by the district court in the damages portion of *1167these proceedings, recorded at 468 F.Supp. 802 (E.D.La.1979), prompts the present appeal. An abbreviated summary of pertinent facts is presented here; the factual situation and the attendant relationships among the several parties are more…