# Ruth Culver, Cross-Appellees v. Slater Boat Co., Cross Europirates International, Inc., and Cross- Appellees-Appellants v. Odeco Drilling, Cross

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · September 22, 1982 · 688 F.2d 280

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9469705

## Case

- **Full name:** Ruth CULVER, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. SLATER BOAT CO., Et Al., Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants; EUROPIRATES INTERNATIONAL, INC., Et Al., Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellees-Appellants, v. ODECO DRILLING, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees Cross Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** September 22, 1982
- **Citations:** 688 F.2d 280; 1983 A.M.C. 2251; 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 25416
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Gee
- **Judges:** Godbold, Brown, Clark, Roney, Gee, Tjoflat, Hill, Fay, Rubin, Vance, Kravitch, Johnson, Henderson, Reavley, Politz, Hatchett, Anderson, Randall, Tate, Williams
- **Cited by:** 57 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by Charles D. Gautreaux v. Scurlock Marine, Inc., 107 F.3d 331 (1997).
- Negative treatments: 2
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9469705

## Opinion text

GEE, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I join in Chief Judge Clark’s dissenting opinion, adding only that the majority ap *315 proach throws open the gates of fairyland, where in future there will be fought mighty battles in the air between experts opining learnedly under oath upon the intrinsically unknowable. Persons unable — as Judge Johnson’s opinion illustrates — to forecast reliably what the inflation (or deflation) rate will be one year ahead will swear to what it will be in forty. It seems especially ironic that we decide future rates of inflation sufficiently susceptible of knowledge to indulge sworn speculation about them today at the very time when it has become possible to believe that shortly they may become insignificant.

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