Bertram A. Watson and R. J. Shea, Deputy Commissioner v. Gulf Stevedore Corporation

RUBIN, District Judge:

In the breast of the litigant who has suffered an adverse factual decision by an administrative body, hope springs eternal that he can persuade a reviewing court to overrule it. Here the hope has found fulfillment and the employer of Watson, an injured longshoreman, has persuaded an experienced and able trial judge to overturn a determination by the deputy commissioner under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act that Watson suffers permanent total disability. The employee in turn seeks reversal of the district judge’s decision.

It is uncontested that at…