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GERARDO v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 25081, 25083, 25123, 25266, 25267, 25312, 25413, 25428.

101 F.Supp. 383 (1951)

GERARDO v. UNITED STATES and nine other cases.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

November 14, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Belli, Ashe & Pinney, and Frank J. Baumgarten, all of San Francisco, Cal., Crippen & Flynn, Tacoma, Wash., by Samuel Crippen, Tacoma, Wash., William J. O'Brien, San Francisco, Cal., for libelants.

Chauncey F. Tramutolo, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Keith R. Ferguson, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., Howard J. Bergman Special Asst. to the U. S. Atty., Stewart Harrison, Atty., Department of Justice, Charles Elmer Collett, Asst. U. S. Atty. San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.

HARRIS, District Judge.

Libelants, heirs of several seamen and two work-a-ways on board the Clarksdale Victory, seek to recover damages against respondent for the negligent operation of the ill-fated vessel. On November 24, 1947, the Clarksdale Victory ran on the reefs off of Hippa Island, Queen Charlotte Group, B. C. There were but four survivors.

At the lengthy trial, evidence established the fact that the vessel...

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