SEHLMEYER v. ROMEO CO.

No. 9604.

117 F.2d 996 (1941)

SEHLMEYER et al. v. ROMEO CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 1, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Warren, Atty. Gen., and Lucas E. Kilkenny, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellants.

S. Hasket Derby, Joseph C. Sharp, James A. Quinby, and Lloyd M. Tweedt, all of San Francisco, Cal. (Derby, Sharp, Quinby & Tweedt and Charles L. Hemmings, all of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellees.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in personam in admiralty holding Elton H. Sherwood, the master navigating the tug "Governor Markham", liable for causing a scow towed by the tug to collide with the fishing vessel "Zozel", while the latter was moored on the north side of Pier 17 in the slip between Pier 17 and Pier 19 in San Francisco Harbor.

At the time of the collision the scow contained mud dredged from the slip —...

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