AMERICAN MAIL LINE v. GUY F. ATKINSON CO.

Civ. No. 6933.

123 F.Supp. 571 (1954)

AMERICAN MAIL LINE, Limited v. GUY F. ATKINSON CO.

United States District Court D. Oregon.

April 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. White (White, Sutherland and Parks), Portland, Or., and John Ambler (Grosscup, Ambler, Stephan & Miller), Seattle, Wash., for libelants.

Erskine B. Wood (Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum), Portland, Or., for respondent.


SOLOMON, Judge.

Libelant, owner of the SS Oregon Mail, seeks to recover $14,328.35 from respondent for damages to such vessel resulting from a fire on October 27, 1949. Libelant contends that the fire was caused by negligence of respondent's employees when they welded a bracket and door stop on the steel inboard bulkhead of the vessel's No. 1 diffuser room.

Libelant relies on the theory of res ipsa loquitur and, in the alternative, on evidence which...

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