BENZ v. COMPANIA NAVIERA HIDALGO, S.A.

Nos. 14663, 14664, 14665.

233 F.2d 62 (1956)

William BENZ et al., Appellants, v. COMPANIA NAVIERA HIDALGO, S.A., Appellee. M. D. MacRAE et al., Appellants, v. COMPANIA NAVIERA HIDALGO, S.A., Appellee. Jeff MORRISON et al., Appellants, v. COMPANIA NAVIERA HIDALGO, S.A., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied May 7, 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tanner & Carney, K. C. Tanner, Richard R. Carney, Portland, Or., for appellants.

Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, John D. Mosser, Gunther F. Krause, Portland, Or., for appellee.

Before BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges, and MURPHY, District Judge.


MURPHY, District Judge.

These are appeals from judgments awarding damages in three separate suits brought by the appellee, a Panamanian corporation, in the district court. Appellee is the owner and operator of the S. S. Riviera, a vessel of Liberian registry. The appellants, defendants in the several actions below, are citizens of the State of Oregon and of states or countries different from that of the plaintiff. Appellants were sued individually as officers of three...

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