ATLANTIC & GULF STEVEDORES, INC. v. DONOVAN

No. 18039.

274 F.2d 794 (1960)

ATLANTIC & GULF STEVEDORES, INC., Appellant, v. P. J. DONOVAN, Deputy Commissioner for the 7th Compensation Dist. of the Bureau of Employee's Compensation, U. S. Dept. of Labor; and Charles Cook, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion Mayer, Guy W. Smith, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Lloyd Cyril Melancon, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for appellees.

M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Harold C. Nystrom, Acting Sol. of Labor, Herbert P. Miller, Asst. Sol. of Labor, Alfred H. Myers, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for appellee Donovan.

Before JONES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The question here is whether there is a legal means of requiring the Deputy Commissioner to proceed to decision in a matter properly before him under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq.

It is of vast importance as parties related to maritime injuries to a non-seafaring amphibious worker attempt to answer the riddle which Jensen1 conjured up.

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