CALMAQUIP ENG. WEST HEMISPHERE CORP. v. WEST COAST CARRIERS LTD.

Nos. 79-2926, 79-3248.

650 F.2d 633 (1981)

CALMAQUIP ENGINEERING WEST HEMISPHERE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WEST COAST CARRIERS LTD., Farovi Shipping Corp., and the M/V "Fortune Carrier", her engineer, tackle, Etc., Defendants, West Coast Carriers, Ltd., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

July 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Ralph, Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Smathers & Thompson, Rodney Earl Walton, Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.


THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal from the grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff below, Calmaquip Engineering West Hemisphere Corp. (the "shipper"), in an admiralty action for cargo damage brought under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA), 46 U.S.C. § 1300 et seq. Appellant, West Coast Carriers Ltd. (the "carrier"), objects to the $40,917.07 awarded to Calmaquip for cargo...

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