WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. DAVID

No. 21830.

353 F.2d 660 (1965)

WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Francis DAVID et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 1, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Healy, III, Harry S. Redmon, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant, Jas. Hy. Bruns, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Christopher Tompkins, George W. Reese, New Orleans, La., for appellees, Cornelius G. Van Dalen, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal turns on the Weyerhaeuser corollary to the Ryan doctrine of stevedore-shipowner indemnity.1 Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, 1956, 350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133; Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company v. Nacirema Operating Co., 1958, 355 U.S. 563, 78 S.Ct. 438, 2 L.Ed.2d 491. Under the Sieracki line of decisions...

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