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WILHELM v. ASSOCIATED CONTAINER TRANSP. (AUSTRALIA) LTD.

No. 79-4498.

648 F.2d 1197 (1981)

Fredrick WILHELM, Jr., and Robert Hammermeister, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ASSOCIATED CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION (AUSTRALIA) LTD., and Taylor Machine Works, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newton R. Brown, Wilmington, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Judith B. Hine, Theodore A. Le Gros, Seattle, Wash., on brief; David F. Hiscock, Keller, Rohrback, Waldo & Hiscock (on brief), James F. Whitehead, III, Le Gros, Buchanan, Paul & Madden, P. S., Seattle, Wash., argued, for defendants-appellees.

Before WRIGHT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge.

TAYLOR, District Judge.

Longshoremen Wilhelm and Hammermeister appeal from the dismissal of their product liability claim against the vessel owner Associated Container Transportation (Australia), Ltd., (Associated), and from the denial of their motion for new trial. The district court concluded the product liability claim against Associated was proscribed by 33 U.S.C. § 905 and found that the jury verdict in favor of Associated and Taylor Machine Works was not...

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