O. F. NELSON & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 10816.

149 F.2d 692 (1945)

O. F. NELSON & CO., Limited, v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 21, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farnham P. Griffiths, Charles E. Finney, and McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, for appellants.

Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., and Esther B. Phillips, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., and Arnold Knauth, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, HEALY, and BONE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty holding the appellee is not liable for injury to and loss of appellants' cocoa beans while being transported by the appellee on or about January 29, 1942, in the harbor of Pago Pago of the Samoan Island of Tutuila, on appellee's Navy's wooden lighter, from appellee's Customs warehouse to the steamer Jupiter.

The cocoa beans were an import from British Samoa and held for transshipment to California...

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