ISTHMIAN LINES, INC. v. HAIRE

No. 20553.

334 F.2d 521 (1964)

ISTHMIAN LINES, INC., Appellant, v. Burl HAIRE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Watson, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Galveston, Tex., for appellant.

Newton B. Schwartz, Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and SIMPSON, District Judge.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

After a successful defense of the damage end of a Jones Act suit, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, Marshall v. Isthmian Lines, Inc., 5 Cir., 334 F.2d 131, the Shipowner appeals from the wage element portion of the traditional maintenance-wages-and-cure claim. This attack on principle, not principal, does assert some contentions which have apparently escaped the resourceful counsel who, with Judges and law publishers...

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