ALL COMMODITIES SUPPLIES, CO., LTD. v. M/V ACRITAS

No. 81-3345.

702 F.2d 1260 (1983)

ALL COMMODITIES SUPPLIES, CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. M/V ACRITAS, her engines, tackle, etc., In Rem, and Mid Ocean Lines, Inc. and Initial Maritime Corp., In Personam, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, G.A. Weller, F.J. Barry, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, John J. Broders, J. Kelly Duncan, New Orleans, La., for Mid-Ocean Lines.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sari, Robert B. Deane, Campbell E. Wallace, New Orleans, La., for Initial Maritime Corp.

Before JOHNSON, WILLIAMS and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

This case is a companion case to TAPCO NIGERIA, Ltd. v. M/V WESTWIND, decided this day, 702 F.2d 1252 (5th Cir.1983). It arises from a suit by All Commodities Supplies, Ltd., a Nigerian corporation, to recover for an alleged shortage and damage to a consignment of rice which was loaded aboard the M/V ACRITAS in August, 1978 in Mobile, Alabama and discharged from the vessel in November of that...

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