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BILLECI v. UNITED STATES

No. 17112.

298 F.2d 703 (1962)

Ralph BILLECI, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, and California Stevedore and Ballast Company, Appellee-Impleaded.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

January 18, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mansfield Davis, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Cecil F. Poole, U. S. Atty., Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., R. H. Nicholson, Sp. Atty., Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee U. S.

Partridge, O'Connell, Partridge & Fall, Robert G. Partridge, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee Calif. Stevedore & Ballast Co.

Before CHAMBERS and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, District Judge.

JAMESON, District Judge.

Appellant, longshoreman employed by appellee-impleaded, instituted this libel against appellee, the owner and operator of USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey, for personal injuries sustained on November 29, 1958, when appellant was struck by a falling hatch board while performing unloading operations aboard the vessel. The libel was dismissed, the trial court holding that the crew of the General Gaffey was not negligent and that the vessel was seaworthy...

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