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CHAVEZ v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO.

Civ. Nos. S-74-78, S-74-124, S-74-146, S-74-148, S-74-163, S-74-166, S-74-168, S-74-172 and S-74-632.

413 F.Supp. 1203 (1976)

Margarito CHAVEZ, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO., et al., Defendants. Robert A. DURGIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants. Herman L. PERKINS et al., Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. et al., Defendants. John BELCHE et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants. Doyle B. JAMES et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants. Leota F. ODLE et al., Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. et al., Defendants. Oscar B. WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. et al., Defendants. Pedro AYALA et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants. NATIONAL AMERICAN INSUR. CO. OF OMAHA et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. California.

May 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd Hinkelman, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, Sacramento, Cal., for Margarito Chavez.

James L. Mikacich, Sacramento, Cal., for Robert A. Durgin, et al.

George M. McClarrinon, Sacramento, Cal., for Herman Perkins, Doyle B. James, Leota Odle, Oscar Williams et al. Jack C. Sevey, O'Connor, Sevey & Gessford, and Lloyd Hinkelman, Sacramento, Cal., for John Belche et al.

Gerald J. Adler, Crow, Lytle & Gilwee, Sacramento, Cal., for Pedro Ayala et al.

A. Kirk McKenzie, Long & Levit, San Francisco, Cal., for Nat. Am. Ins. Co. et al.

James R. Diepenbrock, Jack V. Lovell, Sacramento, Cal., for Southern Pacific.

A. Theodore Giattina, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for U. S.

OPINION

MacBRIDE, Chief Judge.

On April 28, 1973, approximately eighteen bomb loaded boxcars exploded in Southern Pacific Transportation Company's Antelope Yard in Roseville, California. These boxcars and bombs, both the property of the United States, were being hauled by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company (hereinafter Southern Pacific), under a contract with the Department of the Navy, from Hawthorne, Nevada, to Port Chicago, California. Plaintiffs...

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