SANDOVAL v. MITSUI SEMPAKU K. K. TOKYO

No. 71-1699.

460 F.2d 1163 (1972)

Leopoldo SANDOVAL, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross Appellant, and Panama Canal Company, Intervenor-Appellee-Cross Appellant, v. MITSUI SEMPAKU K. K. TOKYO, Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. J. Berger, Cristobal, Canal Zone, Jacob Rassner, New York City, for appellee-appellant.

Woodrow De Castro, Balboa, Canal Zone, Winston Edward Rice, New Orleans, La., for Mitsui Sempaku K. K. Tokyo; Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., and Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, and John R. Geraghty, New York City, of counsel.

De Castro & Robles, Balboa, Canal Zone, for plaintiff-in-intervention-appellant-appellee.

Dwight A. McKabney, Robert J. Park, Office of General Counsel, Panama Canal Co., Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, John L. Haines, Jr., Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, for Panama Canal Co.

Before GEWIN, AINSWORTH and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

On the evening of September 10, 1960, Leopoldo Sandoval and his fellow Panama Canal Company employees boarded Mitsui's vessel AKIBASAN MARU shortly after the vessel began her northbound transit of the Panama Canal. No vessel may transit the Canal without the Canal Company's pilot and linehandling crew, unless special permission is granted by the Canal Company. 35 C.F.R. § 109.4.

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