COMPAGNIA MARITIMA LA EMPRESA, S.A. v. PICKARD

No. 19838.

320 F.2d 829 (1963)

COMPAGNIA MARITIMA LA EMPRESA, S.A., Appellant, v. Rod PICKARD, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cromwell Anderson, Smathers & Thompson, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

George H. Henry, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before BROWN, GEWIN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal attacks a decree allowing to Libelant Pickard the sum of $20,215.801 as maritime liens against the M/V EDA, a beautiful vessel at one time the presidential yacht for a one-time president of Venezuela. While this case is in rem against the yacht and must be judged on applicable principles of maritime liens, it is but one phase of a many fronted controversy between Pickard and his former associates...

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