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ORION SHIPPING AND TRADING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 15264.

247 F.2d 755 (1957)

ORION SHIPPING and TRADING COMPANY, a corporation, and Pacific Cargo Carriers Corporation, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 25, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Robert V. Holland, Seattle, Wash., for appellant.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leavenworth Colby, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Keith Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Graydon S. Staring, Attorney, Department of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., Charles P. Moriarty, U. S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, POPE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

The two corporate appellants, hereafter Orion, appeal from the dismissal of a third party complaint filed in a suit at common law. The complaint was filed by one Basnight, a seaman on Orion's Steamship Seacoronet while in dock at Pier 2, in Pusan, Korea, where he was injured by the unseaworthiness of the vessel, exposing him to the fumes of chlorine gas which were negligently allowed to escape from the containers during their loading. Basnight...

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