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U.S. FID. & GUAR. v. JADRANSKA SLOBODNA PLOVIDBA

No. 81-2197.

683 F.2d 1022 (1982)

UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JADRANSKA SLOBODNA PLOVIDBA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harney B. Stover, Jr., Ross F. Plaetzer, Davis, Kuelthau, Vergeront, Stover, Werner & Goodland, S. C., Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Steven B. Belgrade, Joseph V. McGovern & Assoc. Ltd., Chicago, III., for defendant-appellee.

Before BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and LARSON, Senior District Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment exonerating the defendant, a Yugoslavian enterprise that owns the M/V Makarska, from negligence in connection with the death of a longshoreman, Patrick Huck, who fell into a hold.

The Makarska has five holds, numbered 1 through 5 from bow to stern, as shown in the following diagram:

Holds 2 through 5 are identical, so far as we can glean from the record. (Oddly...

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