Legal Opinion · Dissent
John Sidney McKean v. W. Horace Williams Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1960No. 17776Published
1DissentJohn R. Brown, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) .
The Court’s unilluminating per curiam is everything a famous world leader once described as an enigma wrapped in a mystery. It states that the District Court, though finding for the plaintiff on the existence of total disability nevertheless, “on the authority of Sumrall v. J. C. Penney, La.App., 101 So.2d 758, then pending in the Supreme Court, denied the claim for statutory penalties * * This Court then proceeds to declare that the Louisiana Supreme Court subsequently affirmed Sumrall “and on its authority we affirm the district judge’s denial of penalties and attorneys’ fees…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
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- Stoner v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Six Companies of Cal. v. Joint Highway Dist. No. 13 of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
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