Legal Opinion
United States Lines Company v. Leroy Williams
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 18, 1966No. 22087PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
Of the hundreds of amphibious Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance juridical round robins churned by the swells of Sieracki-Rycm-Yaka-Italia, 1 this is one of the simplest. Simple in outline of its facts, in its cast of characters and in its outcome through the jury verdict, it really offers only one significant legal question. All others pretty well washed out by the jury’s resolution of the facts and the remaining one became alive by the jury’s verdict and our recent intervening opinion which made the trial Judge an erring prophet.
Unlike so many, this one starts out simply…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Reed v. the YakaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Italia Societa Rer Azioni Di Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by48 opinions
- Whitney Allen v. Seacoast Products, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Stephen Brent WHEELER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHN DEERE COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1988
- Frank W. Cates, Cross-Appellant v. United States of America, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Robert M. Burns v. Anchor-Wate Co. And Brown and Root, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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