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TRIPLE A MACHINE SHOP, INC. v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

No. 14268.

221 F.2d 916 (1955)

TRIPLE A MACHINE SHOP, Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

April 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derby, Cook, Quinby & Tweedt, Stanley J. Cook, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Graham & Morse, Francis L. Tetreault, San Francisco, Cal., Clarence G. Morse, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant, hereafter the repairer, appeals from a decree in admiralty holding it liable to appellee, hereafter the shipowner, for negligently causing a fire in the Number 1 hold of its steamship, Jean Lafitte, while it was at Pier 15 in the harbor of San Francisco. The vessel had been loaded in the Number 1 hold on the day before with Army clothing and supplies at an Army dock in the harbor of Oakland, Alameda, California. The negligence found...

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