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GULF OIL CORPORATION v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY

No. 25141.

407 F.2d 24 (1969)

GULF OIL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 5, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley R. Wright, Joseph C. Smith, New York City, for appellant.

Jerry W. Mitchell, Dwight A. McKabney, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, for appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, DYER, Circuit Judge, and GARZA, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The problem here is the old, old one of sovereign immunity. Here the only new wrinkle, Mike Hooks, Inc. v. Pena, 5 Cir., 1963, 313 F.2d 696, 697, 1963 A.M. C. 355, 356, is that it has to be towed in stern-first since the governmental corporation invoking this ancient and generally discredited trapping of the King-can-do-no-wrong era is given express statutory power to sue and be sued. Of course it has to...

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