STATE OF ISRAEL v. MOTOR VESSEL NILI

No. 27126.

435 F.2d 242 (1970)

STATE OF ISRAEL, a sovereign nation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MOTOR VESSEL NILI, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Singer & Friedlander, Inc., and Ted Curry Shipping, Ltd., Claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 23, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Ralph, Ralph & Boyd, Miami, Fla., for State of Israel.

Raymond T. Greene, Miami, Fla., for Singer & Friedlander.

William F. Parker, Miami, Fla., for Ted Curry Shipping, Ltd.

M. Lewis Hall, Jr., Hall & Hedrick, Miami, Fla., for Belcher Oil Co.

Eugene C. Heiman, Heiman, & Crary, Miami, Fla., for T. Arison & Co.

Richard E. Reckson, Arnold D. Schatzman, Aronovitz, Aronovitz & Haverfield, Miami, Fla., George E. Patterson, Jr., Turner & Patterson, John L. Britton, Feibelman, Friedman, Hyman & Britton, Arthur Roth, Miami, Fla., for Sea Host, Inc.

Before COLEMAN, SIMPSON and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The good ship M/V NILI makes its third voyage into this Court.1 This trip the NILI's mortgagee, appellant-cross-appellee, State of Israel (Israel), brings a foreign ship mortgage foreclosure action2 against the M/V NILI (NILI) and her fittings, herein appellee-cross-appellant, which generates an international multi-party lien priority race. The race was won-by entry of partial summary...

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