Rutherford v. Chiles Offshore Co.

KNOLL, Judge.

This appeal concerns the question of whether Terry D. Rutherford and his wife, Sharon Skinner Rutherford, filed suit in the proper venub against Chiles Drilling Company, Chiles Offshore, Inc., Chiles Offshore Limited V, and Chiles-Alexander Offshore, Inc. (hereafter collectively referred to as Chiles)1. The Rutherfords sued Chiles in Sabine Parish, the Rutherfords’ domicile, seeking damages for personal injury under the Jones Act and general maritime law, as well as damages for Chiles’ arbitrary and capricious failure to properly pay maintenance to Terry Rutherford. Prior to…