GULF TAMPA DRYDOCK CO. v. GERMANISCHER LLOYD

No. 78-2298.

634 F.2d 874 (1981)

GULF TAMPA DRYDOCK CO. and Commercial Union Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GERMANISCHER LLOYD, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel G. W. Pieper, Tampa, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, David F. Pope, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, RUBIN and TATE, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In this admiralty case, the district court below found Germanischer Lloyd, a ship classification society,1 liable in contribution to Gulf Tampa Drydock Company (Tampa Drydock)2 for damages arising from a fire aboard the cargo ship CAP NORTE on a theory of concurrent negligence. (Tampa Drydock had been found negligent and thus liable to the owners of the CAP NORTE in

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