Sture v. Sigfred v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

While I differ finally from the majority on the interpretation of the contract, the difficulties on any interpretation of of it and doubts about the final correct one are such that, standing alone, I would not have thought my contrary views sufficiently well founded to outweigh the collective judgment of my associates or move me to dissent. But there is much more to this case than that — much more than the able opinion of Judge Tuttle reflects.

I would accept their interpretation of this contract, or for that matter the district judge’s alone, had there ever been one. The trouble is that here,…