Halliburton Company and Continental Casualty Company v. Norton Drilling Company and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal of the appellants’ third-party complaint wherein the appellants asserted a right to be indemnified by the appellee, the employer of the injured plaintiff, for any damages which might be recovered by by the plaintiff from the appellants. We affirm the judgment below.

In February, 1960, the appellee Norton, a drilling contractor, was engaged in drilling for oil in Lake Barre, in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It was conducting the drilling operations from its submersible drilling barge. The plaintiff, Adam J. Sims, was employed by Norton as…