ASSOCIATED METALS & MINERALS CORP. v. M/V VISHVA SHOBHA

No. 75-1726.

530 F.2d 714 (1976)

ASSOCIATED METALS & MINERALS CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The M/V VISHVA SHOBHA, her engines, tackle, etc., and the Shipping Corporation of India, Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip G. Meyer, Foster, Meadows & Ballard, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Robert A. Jenkins, Scholl, Jenkins, Robinson & Stieg, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel in rem and in personam filed under the Admiralty jurisdiction of the United States Courts by the owner of a cargo of steel shipped from India to Chicago. Defendants are the ship M/V Vishva Shobha, and her owner The Shipping Corporation of India, Ltd. The steel was loaded in September of 1970 at Visakhapatnam, India. Enroute to New York the Vishva Shobha collided with another ship in...

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