FIREMEN'S FUND INSURANCE CO. v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF CAL.

Nos. 18404-18408.

339 F.2d 148 (1964)

FIREMEN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Appellees. The CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant, v. FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA et al., Appellees. YACHT CENTRE, INC., et al., Appellants, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Appellees. The CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant, v. D. R. GUSTAVESON et al., Appellees. GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

November 30, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Arnebergh, City Atty., Arthur W. Nordstrom, Asst. City Atty., Walter C. Foster, Deputy City Atty., and Trippet, Yoakum & Ballantyne, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant City of Los Angeles, Cal.

Frederick B. Belanger and Schell & Delamer, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee Ben C. Gerwick, Inc.

Philip K. Verleger, John Lawrence Leary, McCutchen, Black, Verlerger & Shea, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees and cross-appellants Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. et al.

Before BARNES, HAMLEY and BROWNING, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge:

These are five admiralty actions consolidated for trial, and on appeal. Appellants are individual boat owners and various insurance companies who had paid for damage to, and "clean-up" of, various private pleasure yachts, which had been anchored in Los Angeles Harbor, primarily in and about the Yacht Centre, Inc. This corporation occupied harbor space pursuant to a lease granted by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles...

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