UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 11126.

156 F.2d 312 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF CALIFORNIA.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 22, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Carr, U. S. Atty., Robert E. Wright, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lillick, Geary, McHose & Adams, and Augustus F. Mack, Jr., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, of San Francisco, Cal., Lawler, Felix & Hall and John M. Hall, all of Los Angeles, Cal., and Felix T. Smith and John A. Sutro, both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty holding the United States liable for the contamination of a portion of appellee's cargo of gasoline and oil in its commercial tanker, chartered by appellee for her full capacity on a single voyage from San Pedro and El Segundo in the State of California to Point Wells in the State of Washington, and for the damage to appellee's gasoline and fuel oil in two shore tanks into which appellant pumped the...

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