Legal Opinion
Sohyde Drilling & Marine Co. v. Coastal States Gas Producing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 14, 1981No. 78-2817PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, Sohyde Drilling and Marine Co. (Sohyde) and others, appeal from an adverse judgment by the District Court which found them liable to Appellee, Coastal States Gas Producing Co. (Coastal), for property damages arising out of the blowout of Coastal’s high pressure gas well. The blowout occurred while Sohyde was performing workover operations on the well aboard its submersible drilling barge which, at the time, was resting on the bottom of a dead-end dredged canal slip in Louisiana. *1134Because we find that the District Court improperly assumed admiralty…
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