IN RE UNTERWESER REEDEREI, GMBH

No. 27497.

428 F.2d 888 (1970)

In the Matter of the Complaint of UNTERWESER REEDEREI, GMBH. ZAPATA OFF-SHORE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M/S BREMEN and Unterweser Reederei GMBH, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Kerr, Jack C. Rinard, Tampa, Fla., Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, J. Y. Gilmore, Jr., Warren Faris, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Dewey R. Villareal, Jr., Tampa, Fla., James K. Nance, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GEWIN and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Unterweser Reederei, GMBH (Unterweser), seeks review of an order of the district court denying a stay of the limitation action Unterweser had filed in that court and enjoining Unterweser from proceeding further with litigation concerning the same subject matter in an English court. The limitation action was brought after Zapata Off-Shore Company (Zapata) filed a complaint in admiralty against Unterweser and its tug Bremen.

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