Legal Opinion
John J. McConville v. Florida Towing Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1963No. 20195_1PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
What was hoped to be, but never quite got into the case below has probably turned out to be the only matter of much consequence in this appeal from a decree exonerating a tug owner of all claims for damages as well as maintenance and cure resulting from an assault committed by the cook of the Tug Hercules on the deckhand McConville. The only real surviving issue is whether the Court properly denied leave to amend the libel to set up in Counts Four and Five claims for statutory penalties for unlawful payments of wages of a seaman.
The main appeal may be quickly…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Czaplicki v. the Hoegh SilvercloudSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- McAllister v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by29 opinions
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