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HOWARD v. VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 71-122.

367 F.Supp. 551 (1973)

Charles W. HOWARD, Jr. v. VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

December 7, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Cooper, Jr., Rayville, La., Jack C. Benjamin, Kierr, Gainsburgh & Benjamin, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Calvin E. Hardin, Jr., Emile C. Rolfs, III, Durrett, Hardin, Hunter, Dameron & Fritchie, Baton Rouge, La., for defendant-third party plaintiff, Vulcan Materials Co.

Sam J. D'Amico, D'Amico & Curet, Baton Rouge, La., for third party defendant-third party plaintiff, AAA Contracting Co., Inc.

William A. Norfolk, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for third party defendant-intervenor, The Travelers Ins. Co.

E. GORDON WEST, District Judge:

This matter is before the Court on the motion of the defendant, Vulcan Materials Company (Vulcan), for summary judgment. Vulcan is a chemical plant characterized by its mechanical manager, Lewis J. Fairbanks, as "a chlorinated solvents plant." It makes "industrial solvents by chlorinating hydrocarbons." In some of their purifying processes they use a carrier solvent known as epichlorohydrin, and this is used particularly in the ethane...

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