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HERCULES, INC. v. STEVENS SHIPPING CO.

No. 84-8198.

765 F.2d 1069 (1985)

HERCULES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STEVENS SHIPPING CO., et al., Defendants-Appellants, Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 16, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gustave R. Dubus, III, Savannah, Ga., for Detco.

Robert S. Glenn, Jr., Savannah, Ga., for Stevens Shipping Co.

Edwin D. Robb, Jr., Savannah, Ga., for Hercules, Inc.

Allen F. Campbell, New Orleans, La., for Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.

Before KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

On June 29, 1975, the barge Herwood capsized in the Caribbean Sea, losing its cargo of some 4,350 telephone poles and sustaining substantial damage to its hull. The parties then embarked upon an odyssey of litigation, which, ten years after the capsize, finally has culminated in the instant appeal. Stevens Shipping Co., Inc., the stevedoring firm that loaded the poles onto the barge, appeals from a judgment holding it liable to Aetna Casualty...

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