Legal Opinion
Toops v. Gulf Coast Marine Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1996No. 95-40017PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUNTON, Senior District Judge.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Dayton-Scott Equipment Company is a Houston based company that rents heavy cranes to large contractors and industrial companies throughout the United States. In 1990, Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastic Company approached Dayton-Scott to lease a ringer attachment 1 for a crane to be used on a construction project at Union Carbide’s Point Comfort plant in Seadrift, Texas.
The ringer attachment was located on a construction site in Sulphur, Louisiana and needed to be transported to the Union Car bide construction site in South Texas. Dayton-Scott…
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