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PETITION OF WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

No. 62-1024.

265 F.Supp. 595 (1966)

Petition of WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, a corporation, owner of the vessel S.S. CHICKASAW, for exoneration from and limitation of liability.

United States District Court S. D. California, C. D.

August 4, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Graham, James & Rolph, by Leo J. Vander Lans and Don A. Proudfoot, Long Beach, Cal., for Waterman Steamship Corp.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, by Philip K. Verleger, Los Angeles, Cal., by Manuel Real, Eugene Kramer, Los Angeles, Cal., John F. Meadows and Henry Haugen, Admiralty & Shipping Section, U. S. Department of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., Fletcher & Rauch, by Robert A. Fletcher, Los Angeles, Cal., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, by John W. R. Zisgen, New York City, for claimants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CURTIS, District Judge.

On February 7, 1962, the steamship CHICKASAW, owned by the petitioner, Waterman Steamship Corporation, ran hard aground on Santa Rosa Island. She was returning from Japan, bound for Los Angeles, and was attempting a landfall on the south light of the island. It was a dark and rainy night with visibility about one mile, and the captain had been without benefit of a celestial observation for two days because of overcast...

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