FIREMAN'S FUND INS. CO. v. CITY OF MONTEREY

Nos. 18569-18572.

6 F.2d 893 (1925)

FIREMAN'S FUND INS. CO. v. CITY OF MONTEREY, and three other cases.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

June 9, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farnham P. Griffiths, Jay T. Cooper, and McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, all of San Francisco, Cal., for libelants.

Bell & Simmons, of San Francisco, Cal., and Argyll Campbell, of Monterey, Cal., for respondents.


KERRIGAN, District Judge.

These are four libels, brought by certain insurance corporations against the city of Monterey, a municipal corporation. Libelants are assignees of the shippers of a large number of cases of canned sardines, which were lost or damaged when a wharf, owned and operated for commercial purposes by respondent, collapsed and precipitated said cases into the navigable waters of Monterey Bay.

The libels allege that the wharf was caused to...

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