STEPHENS v. OSAKA MERCANTILE STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 20012.

328 F.2d 604 (1964)

E. D. STEPHENS, Appellant, v. OSAKA MERCANTILE STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Ltd. and Southern Stevedoring & Contracting Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jiles Roberts, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Mayo J. Thompson, B. D. McKinney, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, BREITENSTEIN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a judgment that an injured longshoreman take nothing. The plaintiff tried his case on the theory that he was injured as the result of working on a slanting working surface, that it was negligence to provide such a work surface, and that such a surface was an unseaworthy condition.

The case was tried to the district judge who found that the plaintiff's foot slipped on a slanted surface, but that he could not say to what degree...

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