GULF CENTRAL PIPELINE CO. v. MOTOR VESSEL LAKE PLACID

No. 69-434.

315 F.Supp. 974 (1970)

GULF CENTRAL PIPELINE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. MOTOR VESSEL LAKE PLACID, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Furniture, etc. and Atlantic Shipping Company, S.A., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

July 31, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. O'Neil, Charles Lugenbuhl, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Robert B. Deane, Marshall Ballard, III, M. D. Yager, David Vosbein, New Orleans, La., for defendants.


RUBIN, District Judge:

A third party defendant here seeks to stay the determination of the merits of the claim against it pending arbitration. Since the third party defendant has been dilatory in seeking the stay, to the prejudice of the third party plaintiff, laches bars it from the relief sought.

On February 28, 1969, Gulf Central Pipeline Company sued the MS LAKE PLACID in rem, and the vessel's charterer, Atlantic Shipping Company, in personam, for alleged...

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