CITY OF LONG BEACH v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

No. 13972.

223 F.2d 853 (1955)

CITY OF LONG BEACH, a municipal corporation, H. Halvorsen, J. A. Jacobsen and Jacobsen & Company, Inc., a corporation, Appellants, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ekdale, Shallenberger & Toner, San Pedro, Cal., and Irving M. Smith, Long Beach, Cal., Arch E. Ekdale, Gordon P. Shallenberger, George E. Toner, San Pedro, Cal., for appellant.

Lillick, Geary & McHose, William A. C. Roethke, Gordon K. Wright, Lawrence D. Bradley, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before POPE, FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

This is an admiralty appeal.

On April 19, 1950, the President Van Buren,1 a C-3 cargo steam vessel, collided with a finger pier at Forster's shipyard in Los Angeles Harbor, doing consequent damage to the piers of Forster and a small fishing boat and a barge of a fishing company.

Pertinent facts follow. On the date mentioned the President Van Buren was being shifted from Berth 145, Wilmington, Los...

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