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UNITED STATES v. FIRTH

No. 13524.

207 F.2d 665 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. FIRTH.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

October 26, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Leavenworth Colby, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Samuel L. Crippen & Creighton C. Flynn, Tacoma, Wash., William J. O'Brien, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges, and CARTER, District Judge.

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Martin W. Firth, deceased, a work-a-way aboard the ill-fated public vessel Clarksdale Victory, lost his life when the vessel ran onto the reefs off Hipps Island, Queen Charlotte Group, B. C. The administratrix of the estate of said deceased, as libellant, brought an action against the United States of America pursuant to the provisions of 41 Stat. 525, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq. commonly known as the Suits in Admiralty Act; and pursuant to...

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