ROCONA v. GUY F. ATKINSON CO.

No. 11885.

173 F.2d 661 (1949)

The ROCONA et al. v. GUY F. ATKINSON CO.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

April 2, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Morgan & Farrer and William S. Scully, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene, Harold A. Black and George E. Toner, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before MATHEWS and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges, and DRIVER, District Judge.


DRIVER, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in admiralty adjudging the appellants liable for damage to appellee's unpowered barge and for the partial loss of its cargo.

In March, 1945, appellee was constructing a mole in Los Angeles Harbor, and, in the prosecution of the work, was using a number of barges to transport rock from Catalina Island. About 1:30 p. m., on March 31, appellant Tug Rocona, hereafter called the Rocona, operating...

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