BURKE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 9657, 9658, 9715, 9716.

15 F.2d 573 (1926)

BURKE v. UNITED STATES. OLSON v. SAME. SLOVARP v. SAME.

District Court, D. Oregon.

August 2, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey & Kerr, Chas. A. Hart, and M. K. Holland, all of Portland, Or., for libelants Burke and Olson.

H. S. McCutchan, of Portland, Or., for libelant Slovarp.

Erskine Wood, of Portland, Or., for the United States.


BEAN, District Judge.

This is an action growing out of the collision of the steamship West Nomentum with the fishing schooner Nenamosha near the Columbia River Lightship on June 25, 1925, in a dense fog.

The West Nomentum is 410 feet long, 53 feet beam, and a gross tonnage of 5,652 tons. The Nenamosha was a gasoline propelled schooner, 54 feet long, 14 feet beam, and 22ton capacity. She was engaged in fishing for halibut along the Oregon coast. Her crew consisted...

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