City Of Long Beach v. American President Lines, Ltd.

223 F.2d 853 CITY OF LONG BEACH, a municipal corporation, H. Halvorsen, J. A. Jacobsen and Jacobsen & Company, Inc., a corporation, Appellants, v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., a corporation, Appellee. No. 13972. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. June 14, 1955. Ekdale, Shallenberger & Toner, San Pedro, Cal., and Irving M. Smith, Long Beach, Cal., Arch E. Ekdale, Gordon P. Shallenberger, George E. Toner, San Pedro, Cal., for appellant. Lillick, Geary & McHose, William A. C. Roethke, Gordon K. Wright, Lawrence D. Bradley, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee. Before POPE, FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges. CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge. 1 This is an admiralty appeal. 2 On April 19, 1950, the President Van Buren, 1 a C-3 cargo steam vessel, collided with a finger pier at Forster's shipyard in Los Angeles Harbor, doing consequent damage to the piers of Forster and a small fishing boat and a barge of a fishing company. 3 Pertinent facts follow. On the date mentioned the President Van Burden was being shifted from Berth 145, Wilmington, Los Angeles Harbor, to the Procter & Gamble dock in Long Beach Harbor. The course of the shift begins in a channel of the west…