SAINT PAUL MARINE TRANSP. CORP. v. CERRO SALES CORP.

No. 72-1675.

505 F.2d 1115 (1974)

SAINT PAUL MARINE TRANSPORTATION CORP., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CERRO SALES CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Waddell (argued), of Dorr, Cooper & Hays, San Francisco, for defendant-appellant.

Paul F. Cronin (argued), of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya & Haley, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HUFSTEDLER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, District Judge.


OPINION

SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge:

Early in the morning of June 23, 1968 the crew of the SS North America, a small Liberian tramp freighter, abandoned its flaming vessel approximately 600 miles east-southeast of Honolulu. The ship's $1,850,000 cargo of copper concentrates bound for South America belonged to appellant Cerro Sales. The U. S. Coast Guard picked up the crew's distress signal and at approximately...

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