Robert L. Waterbury v. Byron Jackson, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party v. William G. Blackwell, Third-Party

COWEN, Senior Judge:

This case comes to us on the plaintiff’s appeal from a judgment against him in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. In the court below, the plaintiff claimed that the defendant’s negligence effectively caused the loss of an oil well which the plaintiff owned. On appeal, the plaintiff frames the issues in terms of negligent breach of contract and failure to meet the standard of care required of one holding himself out to be an expert. It matters not how the plaintiff styles his cause of action; he has not proved his right to recovery under…