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UNITED STATES v. HARRISON

No. 15054.

245 F.2d 911 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Benjamin HARRISON and Jones Stevedoring Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

April 29, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul A. Sweeney, Herman Marcuse, Leavenworth Colby, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Keith Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

John H. Black, Edward R. Kay, Henry W. Schaldach, San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Before HEALY, LEMMON and FEE, Circuit Judges.

JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

Benjamin Harrison, a longshoreman employed by Jones Stevedoring Company, filed libel against the United States, wherein it was alleged that the government was the owner of S.S. Private John R. Towle and that Harrison slipped, while unloading the vessel, on an accumulation of oil because of the negligence of the government agents. It was alleged also that the vessel was, by the accumulation, unseaworthy. The court permitted the Stevedoring...

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