H.W. Klein, Successor in Interest to Dixie Drilling Company v. Continental-Emsco, a Division of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is a products liability suit involving property damage to an oil drilling rig located near Woodville, Texas. In March of 1966 the massive traveling block of a drilling rig owned by Dixie Drilling Company struck the crown block assembly and fell 140 feet to the rig floor, killing a crew member and causing extensive damage to the rig. This accident engendered a wrongful death action filed by the widow of the deceased crewman. Prior to the separation and settlement of that action, plaintiff H. W. Klein, as successor in interest to Dixie Drilling Company, intervened,…