Travelers Indemnity Company v. Mayronne Mud & Chemical Corporation, Oil Field Barges, Inc., T-W Drilling Company, T-W Drilling Company, Cross-Appellants v. Travelers Indemnity Company, Cross-Appellee

272 F.2d 710, 1959 U.S. App. LEXIS 2879

Opinion

272 F.2d 710

TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY, Appellant,
v.
MAYRONNE MUD & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Oil Field Barges, Inc., T-W Drilling Company, et al., Appellees.
T-W DRILLING COMPANY et al., Cross-Appellants,
v.
TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY, Cross-Appellee.

No. 17830.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 15, 1959.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; J. Skelly Wright, Judge.

David J. Conroy, C. D. Marshall, New Orleans, La., Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for T-W Drilling Co., et al.

Pat F. Bass, New Orleans, La., for Travelers Indemnity Co.

W. L. Von Hoene, J. Barbee Winston, New Orleans, La., Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before JONES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Tried and decided on the premise that it was "conceded by both parties that Louisiana law applies" and with no questions raised under the maritime law, cf. Wilburn Boat Co. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., 1955, 348 U.S. 310, 75 S.Ct. 368, 99 L.Ed. 337, the District Court in an able opinion held that the damage to the barge and its cargo of drilling mud was not within the care, custody and control exclusion of appellant's policy. Mayronne Mud & Chemical Corp. v. T-W Drilling Co., D.C.E.D.La.1958, 168 F.Supp. 800. For the reasons so well set forth, we agree both on the coverage and the denial of penalties and attorneys' fees.

Affirmed.