Legal Opinion
Bruyninckx v. Bratten
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 13, 1989No. 88-926PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNOLL, Judge.
Curtis Wayne Bratten and his employer, B.J. Titan Services Company, appeal the summary judgment dismissing their third-party demand against McDermott Incorporated, the company which constructed a fixed drilling platform owned by Placid Oil Company permanently affixed to the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. The trial court found that Bratten and Titan’s action against McDermott was barred by the ten year peremption of LSA-R.S. 9:2772, and dismissed their claims against McDermott.
Bratten and Titan contend that fixed platforms on the outer continental shelf are not “improvements to…
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