Legal Opinion
Philip J. Mull, Jr. v. Marathon Oil Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 7, 1981No. 80-3873PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
In 1978, Appellant Philip J. Mull, Jr. sustained personal injuries while working aboard a fixed oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico which belonged to Appellee Marathon Oil. Mull lost approximately fifty percent of the use of his left index finger as a result of a cut he received.
Mull filed suit in August 1978 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He claimed $100,000 in damages arising from Marathon’s alleged negligence. Jurisdiction was predicated upon 28 U.S.C. § 1331 and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. In November 1978, the…
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