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GRICE v. J. RAY McDERMOTT AND COMPANY, INC.

No. 72-1430 Summary Calendar.

465 F.2d 486 (1972)

Walter L. GRICE, Administrator of the Estate of Billy Wayne Grice, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. RAY McDERMOTT AND COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Alva Brumfield, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Frank C. Allen, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GOLDBERG and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This admiralty case involves an action for the wrongful death of a seaman lost to the utterly unfeminine force of Hurricane Camille. Following a stormy trial, the jury returned its verdict on special interrogatories. The trial judge believed that the tempest had subsided and accordingly entered judgment for appellee. Perceiving prejudicial error in the charge to the jury that the trial judge inadvertently failed to forecast, we find that the...

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