COMPLAINT OF McLINN

No. 82-3644.

744 F.2d 677 (1984)

In the Matter of the Complaint of William McLINN, as owner of the F/V FJORD, her engines, tackle, boilers, and equipment for exoneration from, or limitation of liability. In the Matter of the Complaint of Gilbert Jack JOHNSON and Jack Stewart Johnson, as owners of the F/V SUPERSONIC, her engines, tackle, boilers, and equipment, and as owners of one certain Beck 15 foot fiberglass skiff, her engine, tackle and equipment, for exoneration from, or limitation of liability. Frank CHURCHILL, as the Informal Administrator of the Estate of Patrick Churchill and Dale Carlough, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The F/V FJORD, etc., et al., Defendants, and The F/V SUPERSONIC, her engines, tackle, apparel, appliances, equipment, apparatus and furniture; Gilbert Johnson, part owner and/or operator of said F/V SUPERSONIC; Jack Johnson, part owner of said F/V SUPERSONIC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Markham, Kodiak, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James M. Powell, Kenneth F. Brittain, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz & Powell, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Before CANBY, BOOCHEVER, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Churchill and Carlough sue for wrongful death and personal injury arising from the navigation of three skiffs, two of which collided. The district court granted partial summary judgment to the Johnsons, owners of one of the skiffs, and to their vessel, and entered judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b). Plaintiffs appeal arguing that the owners are liable, alternatively, under an Alaska statute, under the theory of respondeat...

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