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Title: Admiral Towing Company v. Theo Woolen and
Author : United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
Release Date : January 18, 1961
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 75 KB

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Pursuant to 46 U.S.C.A. ? 185, Admiral Towing Company, a corporation, and Walter B. Martinson, an individual, petitioned the District Court for a limitation of liability arising out of the disappearance at sea of the tug boat Companion en route from San Francisco to Astoria, Oregon. The court denied the petition. It ruled that Martinson was the de facto, equitable and true owner of the tug although legal title resided in Admiral Towing Company, that Martinson with privity and knowledge had negligently failed to provide the vessel with an adequate crew, a life boat or life raft, or a functioning ship-to-shore radio, and that these omissions rendered the Companion unseaworthy and proximately caused her loss at sea and the deaths of her master, John R. Cone, and her sole crewman, Paul Woolen, who were aboard her.