MATHESON v. NORFOLK & NORTH AMERICA STEAM SHIPPING CO.

No. 7438.

73 F.2d 177 (1934)

MATHESON et al. v. NORFOLK & NORTH AMERICA STEAM SHIPPING CO., Limited, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

October 22, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. G. Wright, H. B. Jones, Robert Bronson, and Wright, Jones & Bronson, all of Seattle, Wash., for appellants.

Erskine Wood and Wood, Montague, Matthiessen & Rankin, all of Portland, Or., for appellee Norfolk & N. A. Steam Shipping Co.

Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and GARRECHT, Circuit Judges.


SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty in an action whereby libelant/appellee, the Norfolk & North America Steam Shipping Company, Limited, owner of the British motorship Pacific Commerce, a steel steamer 420 feet long, 54 feet in beam, and 25 feet in depth, sought to recover from appellant Matheson, as pilot, damages alleged to have resulted from the grounding of said vessel on Desdemona...

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