Vivian R. Adams, Individually and as the Personal Representative and Administratrix of the Estate of James E. Adams, Deceased v. Ugland Management Co.

OPINION

Before CHAMBERS and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and EAST, * District Judge. MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

This is a wrongful death action brought by the widow of a longshoreman who drowned in the waters of San Francisco Bay at Richmond, California, while engaged in docking a vessel. Appellee Ugland Management Co. is the owner of the vessel. Plaintiff asserts liability on the alternative grounds of negligence of the ship’s officers and unseaworthiness of the vessel. Finding no factual issue upon either theory of liability and concluding as matter of law that neither could prevail upon the…