Opinion
No. 23362.
May 9, 1967. Rehearing Denied June 8, 1967.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana; Edwin F. Hunter, Jr., Judge.
Edward J. Villere, Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore Lautenschlaeger, L.J. Lautenschlaeger, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant Underwater Services, Inc.
Cavanaugh, Brame, Holt Woodley, Lake Charles, La., Meredith T. Holt and Donald E. Walter, Lake Charles, La., of counsel, for appellants Underwater Services, Inc. and Travelers Ins. Co.
Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., Thomas C. Hall, Lake Charles, La., Theodore Goller, Houston, Tex., Hall, Raggio Farrar, Lake Charles, La., Eikel Goller, Houston, Tex., for appellee.
Before RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and CONNALLY, District Judge.
We adopt as the opinion of this Court the well reasoned opinion of the district court. Smith v. Brown Root Marine Operators, Inc., W.D.La. 1965, 243 F. Supp. 130.
We hold that the district judge was not clearly erroneous in finding Brown Root's employees free of negligence.
Affirmed.