Legal Opinion
Hilburn Pitts, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Intervenor v. Shell Oil Company, and Chesley Pruet Drilling Company, Third Party
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 26, 1972No. 71-2652PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge:
On July 21, 1969, Hilburn Pitts was apparently injured while performing his job as a roughneck. For some 15 years Pitts had been in the employ of Chesley Pruet Drilling Company. At the time of the accident, Pruet was engaged in drilling an oil well for Shell Oil Company.
In his complaint against Shell, filed as a diversity action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Pitts alleged that while working as an employee of Pruet he had inhaled hydrogen sulphide gas. Pitts further alleged that his injuries were proximately caused by the…
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- Boyd v. Crosby Lumber & Manufacturing Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1964
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