United States Fifth Circuit

In a contract dispute, summary judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where the district court's interpretation of the "all freights" language in a maritime shipping contract was erroneous as a matter of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2004
• Published 12/08/2004

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and SMITH and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Carroll Rogers (argued), Peter Brooks Sloss (argued), Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Alexander McLauchlan (argued), Adams & Reese, Houston, TX, Philip A. Franco, Robert N. Markle, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.