WEST INDIA INDUSTRIES, INC. v. VANCE & SONS AMC-JEEP

Nos. 80-1504, 80-2162.

671 F.2d 1384 (1982)

WEST INDIA INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VANCE & SONS AMC-JEEP, Defendant-Appellee. WEST INDIA INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOMMIE VAUGHN MOTORS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Seele, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

James H. Elder, III, Houston, Tex., for Vance & Sons AMC-Jeep.

Alfred C. Schlosser & Co., Jerry Sadler, Houston, Tex., for Tommie Vaughn Motors, Inc.

Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., for amicus curiae West Gulf Maritime Assoc.

Before BROWN and GARZA, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARTZ, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 21, 1982.

CHARLES SCHWARTZ, Jr., District Judge:

Appellant, West India Industries, Inc. (West India) is an ocean carrier which brought these two actions in admiralty seeking recovery of unpaid ocean freight. Defendants-Appellees, Vance & Sons AMC-Jeep (Vance) and Tommie Vaughn Motors, Inc. (Vaughn) are Houston, Texas automobile dealers who were allegedly the shippers...

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