SOLOMON, Judge.
Libelant, owner of the SS Oregon Mail, seeks to recover $14,328.35 from respondent for damages to such vessel resulting from a fire on October 27, 1949. Libelant contends that the fire was caused by negligence of respondent's employees when they welded a bracket and door stop on the steel inboard bulkhead of the vessel's No. 1 diffuser room.
Libelant relies on the theory of res ipsa loquitur and, in the alternative, on evidence which...
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