UNION SULPHUR & OIL CORP. v. W. J. JONES & SON

No. 12938.

195 F.2d 93 (1952)

UNION SULPHUR & OIL CORP. v. W. J. JONES & SON, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 28, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wood, Matthiessen & Wood, Erskine B. Wood, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Gunther F. Krause, Walter H. Evans, Jr., Dennis Lindsay, Portland, Or., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Union Sulphur and Oil Corporation, hereafter Union Sulphur, appeals from a decree in admiralty denying it either indemnity or contribution from W. J. Jones & Son, Inc., hereafter Jones, Inc., impleaded by Union Sulphur as respondent claimed to have such liability to Union Sulphur because of the latter's discharge of a liability owed by both parties to Marshall, the libellant against Union Sulphur's ship. The admiralty jurisdiction was invoked...

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