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VAUGHN v. GULF COPPER

No. 1:98 CV 1617.

54 F.Supp.2d 688 (1999)

Doyle VAUGHN v. GULF COPPER, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

June 9, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Michael Jamail, Reaud Morgan & Quinn, Beaumont, TX, Craig Victor Depew, Clark Depew & Siess, Houston, TX, for plaintiff.

John Robert Walker, Brown Sims Wise & White, Houston, TX, for intervenor.

Leslie Dean Pickett, James M. Tompkins, Galloway Johnson Tompkins & Burr, Houston, TX, for defendant.

Stephen R. Campbell, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for USA, third party defendant.

MEMORANDUM

COBB, District Judge.

The question before the court is which defendant, in the event of Plaintiff's recovery, would be required to pay damages for a slip and fall that occurred on a ship owned by the United States. The plaintiff, Doyle Vaughn was hired by a subcontractor to paint the ship and was injured after allegedly slipping on a patch of leaked hydraulic fluid. Vaughn sued the contractor, Gulf Copper, in state court. Gulf Copper filed...

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