W. J. JONES & SON, INC. v. CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

No. 16685.

284 F.2d 499 (1960)

W. J. JONES & SON, INC., a corporation, Appellants, v. CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORPORATION et al., Appellees. CALMAR STEAMSHIP CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. PITTSTON STEVEDORING CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

November 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, Erskine B. Wood, John R. Brooke, Portland, Or., for Calmar Steamship Corp. et al.

Krause, Lindsay & Nahstoll, Gunther F. Krause, Dennis Lindsay, Carl R. Neil, Portland, Or., for W. J. Jones & Son, Inc.

Koerner, Young, McColloch & Dezendorf, Wayne Hilliard, James H. Clarke, Portland, Or., for Pittston Stevedoring Corp.

Before BARNES, JERTBERG and MERRILL, Circuit Judges.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

This case arose as an action for indemnity brought by a ship operator and his insurers against a west coast loading stevedore to recover settlement moneys paid to an injured employee of an east coast discharging stevedore. The sums were paid to settle a claim of liability due to injury arising from unseaworthy condition of the vessel. Indemnity is here sought under Ryan Stevedoring Company v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, 1956,

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