IN RE YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON KISEN

Civ. Nos. 68-113, 312, 431, 432 and 563.

305 F.Supp. 796 (1969)

In re YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON KISEN, as Owner of the MOTORSHIP SUWAHARU MARU, Plaintiff, in a Cause of Limitation of Liability. In re HELLENIC INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING, S.A. as Owner of the TANKER MANDOIL, II, Plaintiff, in a Cause of Limitation of Liability.

United States District Court D. Oregon.

September 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin, Olsen, Bennett, DesBrisay & Jolles, Portland, Or., for death and personal injury claimants.

Kell & Alterman, Clifford B. Alterman, Lent, York, Paulson & Bullock, Edwin A. York, Carney & Haley, Leo R. Probst, Portland, Or., for salvage claimants.

Wood, Wood, Tatum, Mosser & Brooke, Erskine B. Wood, Portland, Or., for Yamashita-Shinnihon Kisen and Iwai & Co., Ltd.

King, Miller, Anderson, Nash & Yerke, Curtis W. Cutsforth, Portland, Or., for Hellenic International Shipping, S. A.

Detels, Draper & Marinkovich, Martin P. Detels, Jr., Seattle, Wash., for U. S. Oil & Refining Co.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

BEEKS, District Judge.

These consolidated petitions for limitation of liability present many issues. This memorandum decision resolves two of them.

The first involves claims by Hudson Waterways Corp., (Hudson) owner, the master and the thirty man crew of the American steam tanker TRANSONEIDA for a salvage award against (1) Yamashita-Shinnihon Kisen, (Yamashita) the owner of the Japanese...

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