AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. v. REDFERN

No. 19187.

345 F.2d 629 (1965)

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., Appellant, v. John REDFERN, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graydon S. Staring, Frederick W. Wentker, Jr., Lillick, Geary, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Martin J. Jarvis, Jarvis, Miller & Stender, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before CHAMBERS, POPE and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


KOELSCH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the American President Lines, Ltd. (appellant) from a decree of the District Court, entered in an admiralty suit, awarding John Redfern, the libelant, damages for personal injuries sustained while working as an oiler aboard its vessel the SS PRESIDENT HOOVER.

The accident occurred on the afternoon of May 24, 1961, while the HOOVER was putting to sea from the port of Manila. Marcus J. Bommersbach, the watch officer...

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