MIKE HOOKS, INC. v. PENA

No. 19522.

313 F.2d 696 (1963)

MIKE HOOKS, INC., Appellant, v. Gonzalo PENA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Workman, Houston, Tex., Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellant.

Bob J. Spann, Corpus Christi, Tex., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

To the never ceasing riddle of the ambiguous amphibious worker with its tricornered intramural controversy between state-federal compensation and the ubiquitous possibility of a pseudo-seaman's claim1 and the mutations in the vast body of the law as it passed through the phases of maritime but local,2 the twilight zone,3 the first-come-first-served...

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