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ADMIRAL TOWING COMPANY v. WOOLEN

No. 16735.

290 F.2d 641 (1961)

ADMIRAL TOWING COMPANY, a corporation and Walter B. Martinson, Appellants, v. Theo WOOLEN and Dorothy E. Cone, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

April 18, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lofton L. Tatum, Wood, Matthiessen, Wood & Tatum, Portland, Or., for appellants.

Ewing Sibbett, Gladstein, Andersen, Leonard & Sibbett, San Francisco, Cal., Frank Pozzi, Pozzi & Wilson, William F. White, White, Sutherland & White, Portland, Or., for appellees.

Before STEPHENS and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges, and BOWEN, District Judge.

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to 46 U.S.C.A. § 185, Admiral Towing Company, a corporation, and Walter B. Martinson, an individual, petitioned the District Court for a limitation of liability arising out of the disappearance at sea of the tug boat Companion en route from San Francisco to Astoria, Oregon. The court denied the petition. It ruled that Martinson was the de facto, equitable and true owner of the tug although legal title resided in Admiral Towing...

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