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GULF STEVEDORE CORPORATION v. HOLLIS

No. 28010.

427 F.2d 160 (1970)

GULF STEVEDORE CORPORATION and Texas Employers' Insurance Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lee H. HOLLIS, Deputy Commissioner and Gabelus Picard, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed Bluestein, Jr., Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Sidney Ravkind, Anthony J. P. Farris, U. S. Attys., Jack Shepherd, James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., Leavenworth Colby, Atty., Morton Hollander, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, WISDOM, and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Gabelus Picard was working as a longshoreman for Gulf Stevedore on a vessel in Houston when a rope struck him in the eye. The only issue on this appeal is the proper standard for determining the percentage loss of vision. The Longshoremen's Act provides that compensation for loss of eighty percent or more of the vision of an eye "shall be the same as for loss of the eye" — 160 weeks' compensation. 33 U.S.C. § 908(c) (5), (16). Picard and the...

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