GENERAL ELEC. CO. INTERN. v. S.S. NANCY LYKES

No. 809, Docket 82-7709.

706 F.2d 80 (1983)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY INTERNATIONAL SALES DIVISION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. S.S. NANCY LYKES, her engines, boilers, etc. and Lykes Bros. Steamship Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hollis M. Walker, Jr., New York City (Walker & Corsa, New York City, Vera E. Weinberg, Harold V. Higham, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

John E. Cone, Jr., New York City (Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, Helen M. Benzie, Lawrence B. Brennan, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUMBARD and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and ZAMPANO, District Judge.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Carrying on its deck three 50 to 52 ton locomotive cabs shipped by General Electric Company International Sales Division ("GE") to Taiwan, the S.S. Nancy Lykes, on a voyage from the Gulf Coast to Kobe, Japan and the Far East, ran into heavy seas and winds soon after leaving the port of San Pedro-Long Beach, California on May 4, 1978. In the early morning of May 5, 1978, two of the locomotive cabs broke their bindings and were washed overboard...

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