LUCKENBACH OVERSEAS CORPORATION v. USNER

No. 25344.

413 F.2d 984 (1969)

LUCKENBACH OVERSEAS CORPORATION and Isthmian Lines, Inc., Appellants, v. Joseph Charles USNER, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., Benjamin W. Yancey, M. D. Yager, New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Evangeline Vavrick, H. Alva Brumfield, H. Alva Brumfield, III, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before AINSWORTH and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and SINGLETON, District Judge.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying appellants' motion for summary judgment on a claim based on negligence and unseaworthiness by a longshoreman against appellants as owner and charterer of the S/S EDGAR F. LUCKENBACH. The denial of the motion turned upon a controlling question of law as to which there was substantial ground for difference of opinion, i. e., the validity of the doctrine...

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