IONIAN SHIPPING COMPANY v. BRITISH LAW INSURANCE CO.

No. 655, Docket 34327.

426 F.2d 186 (1970)

IONIAN SHIPPING COMPANY, Plaintiff, and Allied Chemical Corporation, Intervenor-Appellant, v. BRITISH LAW INSURANCE CO., Ltd., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Cleveland, III, New York City (Tallman Bissel, John de P. Douw, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, on the brief), for intervenor-appellant Allied Chemical Corp.

William G. Symmers, New York City (Richard H. Webber, Symmers, Fish & Warner, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees British Law Insurance Co., Ltd., and others.

Before KAUFMAN and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and TIMBERS, District Judge.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Allied Chemical Corporation sought intervention as of right under Fed.R. Civ.P. 24(a) in Ionian Shipping Company's suit against British Law Insurance Co., Ltd., insurer of its vessel Sofia M. This appeal questions both the correctness and appealability of Judge Edelstein's order denying that petition for intervention.

In April 1968 Ionian Shipping, owner of the Sofia M, gave the Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association)...

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