TROPICANA SHIPPING, S.A. v. EMPRESA NACIONAL "ELCANO"

No. 22394.

366 F.2d 729 (1966)

TROPICANA SHIPPING, S.A., Appellant, v. EMPRESA NACIONAL "ELCANO" de la MARINA MERCANTE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Carroll, Jr., Benjamin Yancey, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Henry J. Read, New Orleans, La., J. Bond Smith, Jr., New York City, for appellee.

Before JONES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a decree of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana foreclosing a ship mortgage on the MV Tropicana and ordering her sale.1 The ship was built by the libelants, Empresa Nacional "Elcano" de la Marina Mercante (Elcano), a Spanish corporation indirectly owned by the Spanish government, for the respondents, Tropicana Shipping, S. A. (Tropicana), a Panamanian corporation...

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