California Casualty Indemnity Exchange v. United States

HALL, District Judge.

The alleged facts and circumstances connected with this litigation are these: On October 21, 1944, one Jack Stettner and others were engaged in work on a vessel in the yard of Fellows & Stewart at Los Angeles Harbor; the S. S. Fredricksburg, in possession and control of the United States, was docked at the pier of the Union Oil Company, across the channel from the yard of Fellows & Stewart; the Union Oil Company was engaged in a transfer of oil to or from the S. S. Fredricksburg; in connection with that operation, oil escaped upon the surface of the channel, spread to the…