Stockton Sand & Crushed Rock Co. v. Bundensen

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty holding appellee partners free *160from liability for damages by fire to appellant’s derrick barge while engaged in dredging a channel for an outfall sewer on Napa River near Vallejo, California. The barge also was placing and driving a protective barrier of pilings at the channel’s edges to prevent the slipping back into the channel of the removed material.

The district court found as to the agreement between the parties that appellant agreed to furnish to appellees the services of the derrick barge Foy No. 2 in connection with…