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BIBLE v. CHEVRON OIL COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 68-382.

308 F.Supp. 312 (1969)

James H. BIBLE, Plaintiff, v. CHEVRON OIL COMPANY, the California Company Division, & American Chain and Cable Company, Inc., Wright Hoist Division, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

December 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Martzell, Kenneth W. Manuel, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Henry D. McNamara, Jr., of Mouton, Roy Carmouche & Hailey, Metairie, La., for defendant, American Chain & Cable Co., Inc.

RUBIN, District Judge:

On August 17, 1966, James Bible, an employee of Houma Welders, Inc., was working as a welder's helper on a fixed platform located in the Gulf of Mexico about one mile offshore from Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. An opening in the deck of the platform near its southeast corner was being decked and that part of the structure was being reinforced with ten inch steel beams to support a compressor. Bible was standing near the opening, holding one end...

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