GUY F. ATKINSON CO. v. MERRITT, CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORP.

No. 33585.

123 F.Supp. 720 (1954)

GUY F. ATKINSON CO. v. MERRITT, CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORP. et al.

United States District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

August 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnson & Stanton, Gardiner Johnson and John A. Sproul, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon and John F. Ward, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


HAMLIN, District Judge.

Plaintiff has filed an action setting forth eight causes of action. The case arises out of two incidents in the building of Folsom Dam on the American River. Defendant built two cofferdams to divert the water so that the principal dam and its appurtenances could be constructed. Plaintiff was engaged in the building of a power plant. On two occasions, within a few months of each other, the water washed away the cofferdams and destroyed the plaintiff...

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