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LAW v. VICTORY CARRIERS, INC.

No. 28451.

432 F.2d 376 (1970)

Bill LAW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VICTORY CARRIERS, INC., etc., and the S.S. SAGAMORE HILL, etc., Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GULF STEVEDORE CORP., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied November 3, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Thigpen, Diamond & Lattof, Ross Diamond, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

George F. Wood, Mobile, Ala., for Victory Carriers, Inc.

W. Boyd Reeves, Mobile, Ala., for Gulf Stevedore Corp.

Before COLEMAN, GOLDBERG and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 3, 1970.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this admiralty case we must decide whether the post-Gutierrez1 doctrine of unseaworthiness is sufficiently expansive to embrace a longshoreman moving cargo from a point on the dock toward the vessel as part of the total operation of loading the vessel. The longshoreman, plaintiff-appellant Bill Law, was injured on December 11, 1967...

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