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ALBINA ENGINE & MACH. WKS. v. AMERICAN MAIL LINE, LTD.

No. 15829.

263 F.2d 311 (1959)

ALBINA ENGINE & MACHINE WORKS, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. AMERICAN MAIL LINE, LTD., a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 10, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mautz, Souther, Spaulding, Denecke & Kinsey, Arno H. Denecke, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, Erskine Wood, John D. Mosser, Portland, Or., for appellee.

Before FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges, and JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

At Portland in the Willamette River on April 7, 1955, during fire drill on appellee's ship, the Java Mail, a lifeboat's pelican hook became disconnected from the link on the falls lowering the boat. Thus, the lifeboat, out of control, plunged to the river injuring two seamen of the ship's crew. The accident was caused by the point of the hook in the lifeboat being worn short or because of inadequate, defective or out of repair guards on the...

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