Curtis E. Owens v. Diamond M Drilling Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• summary judgment against claimant proper “where the only rational inference to be drawn from the evidence is that the claimant was not a seaman”
• “The issue of status is not necessarily a question for the jury in every case. The law applicable to maritime oil workers has developed to the point where in the appropriate case a legal determination may be made rather than submit the matter to a jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).