TINERELLA v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.

No. 71-2869.

486 F.2d 1370 (1973)

Phillip Joseph TINERELLA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour L. Ellison, (argued), Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos & Lieff, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Graydon S. Staring (argued), Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before CHAMBERS, KOELSCH and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The judgment in this admiralty injury case is affirmed.

As a question of negligence, we cannot find the district court's findings clearly erroneous.

As to any strict liability theory, the circumstance that the district court in its view of the evidence could not connect Bethlehem (the repairs contractor) to missing bolts, which absence was a factor in causation, relieves us of the necessity of exploring the limits of such a theory.

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