Legal Opinion
Anthony C. Prudhomme v. Tenneco Oil Co., Booker Drilling Co., D/B/A Grace Offshore Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 13, 1992No. 91-4473PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal follows the bench trial of a suit in federal district court brought by Plaintiff-Appellee Anthony C. Prudhomme, and his wife, Henrietta G. Prudhomme, against Tenneco Oil Co. (Tenneco) and Booker Drilling Co. d/b/a Grace Offshore Co. (Booker), a drilling contractor. Prud-homme sought damages against Tenneco and Booker for back injuries he allegedly incurred in a slip-and-fall accident while working on a stationary drilling platform owned by Tenneco, located on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana. Henrietta Prudhomme sought…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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