A.C. & LEON ISRAEL COFFEE CO. v. S.S. MARIA U

No. 262 Docket 81-7010.

669 F.2d 85 (1982)

A.C. & LEON ISRAEL COFFEE COMPANY, A DIVISION OF ACLI INTERNATIONAL INC., Plaintiff, v. S.S. "MARIA U", her engines, boilers, etc., Jan C. Uiterwyk Company, Inc. and Armadora Maritima Salvadorana S.A. De CV, Defendants, Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNIVERSAL MARITIME SERVICE CORPORATION, Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. Barra, New York City, (John J. Hession, and Dougherty, Ryan, Mahoney, Pellegrino, Giuffra & Zambito, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

George F. Brammer, Jr., New York City (Grainger & Tesoriero, New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Before TIMBERS and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and MURPHY, District Judge.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

The essential issue on this appeal is whether appellant charterer and appellant shipowner, on their third-party indemnity claim against appellee stevedore, established at trial a prima facie1 case as to the total amount of coffee beans which were loaded on a vessel in El Salvador. We hold that they did not. We affirm the judgment of the district court dismissing the third-party claim.

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