O'KEEFFE v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.

No. 20440.

338 F.2d 319 (1964)

William M. O'KEEFFE, Deputy Commissioner, United States Department of Labor, Appellant, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS. INC., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Lehman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Leavenworth Colby, Chief, Adm. Sec. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Arthur M. Ossinsky, Daytona Beach, Fla., Charles Cook Howell, John E. Houser, Jacksonville, Fla., Howell & Houser, Jacksonville, Fla., of counsel, for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and McRAE, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is a "scope-of-employment" case involving an employee on Grand Turk Island in the British West Indies, 700 miles from the mainland. Discussing a similar case, Judge Chambers of the Ninth Circuit has written: "We do not think that the case is to be tested by the conventional mainland case where the truck driver departs from his authorized route for his private personal convenience." Self v. Hanson, 9 Cir. 1962, 305 F.2d 699...

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