O'KEEFFE v. ATLANTIC STEVEDORING COMPANY

No. 21770.

354 F.2d 48 (1965)

William M. O'KEEFFE, as Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Employees' Compensation, United States Department of Labor, Appellant, v. ATLANTIC STEVEDORING COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 8, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leavenworth Colby, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald H. Fraser, U. S. Atty., Morton Hollander, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Julian F. Corish, Albert N. Remler, Malberry Smith, Jr., Savannah, Ga., for respondent.

Corish, Smith & Remler, Savannah, Ga., of counsel, for appellees.

Before JONES and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and SLOAN, District Judge.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

William Curry was a longshoreman employed by the appellee, Atlantic Stevedoring Company, at the Port of Savannah, Georgia. On October 30, 1962, he was assisting in the loading of rolls of paper from a dock into the hold of a vessel. Each roll of paper was bound by two metal bands, one around each end of the roll, with a band of metal through the core and then around the roll lengthwise and outside of the bands around the circumference. Curry...

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