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MORRELL v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No. 26834.

193 F.Supp. 705 (1960)

William MORRELL and Evaristo Valle, Libelants, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al., Respondents, and Triple "A" Machine Shop, Inc., Respondent-Impleaded.

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

September 16, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay A. Darwin, Kenneth W. Rosenthal, Rex Shoop, San Francisco, Cal., for libelants.

Laurence E. Dayton, U. S. Atty., Keith R. Ferguson, Special Asst. to Atty. Gen., Graydon S. Staring, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, San Francisco, Cal., for the United States.

Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, John H. Painter, Partridge, O'Connell & Whitney Robert G. Partridge, San Francisco, Cal., for respondent-impleaded.

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

Libelants seek to recover damages from respondent for injuries received when lifeboat No. 2 of the U.S.N.S. David C. Shanks fell from its davits on April 14, 1953, and struck the dock. At that time libelants were employees of impleaded respondent Triple "A" Machine Shop, Inc., and were in the lifeboat when it fell. The vessel was a United States Navy civil service manned, dependent passenger...

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