Legal Opinion
Rideout v. Charles Nelson Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 1, 1932No. 6541PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MeCORMICK, District Judge.
A few minutes after midnight of July 7, 1930, the steamer Doylestown, a steel freighter, 2,600 ton gross and 300 feet in length over all, while attempting to dock at the private wharf of the Sperry Flour Company at Yallejo, Cal., brushed the side of the tugboat Halcyon, driving her on the barge Rideout No. 5 and squeezing both tug and barge against the dock to which they were moored, thereby causing damage to them. Their owner filed a libel against the Doylestown and her owner in the District Court for the Northern District of California to recover damages. Issue was…
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