SEDCO, INC. v. S.S. STRATHEWE

No. 1313, Docket 86-7123.

800 F.2d 27 (1986)

SEDCO, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. S.S. STRATHEWE, her engines, boilers, etc., the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Limited and Strick Line Ltd., Defendants. Appeal of The PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Limited and Strick Line Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. Pruzinsky, New York City (Alan S. Loesberg, Hill, Rivkins, Carey, Loesberg, O'Brien & Mulroy, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Donald Burke, New York City (Keith W. Heard, Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before NEWMAN, PIERCE and MINER, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

In this action for loss of value of cargo shipped aboard their vessel, defendants appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York after a bench trial before Judge Richard Owen. The district court found that defendants' conduct constituted an unreasonable deviation within the meaning of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1936 ("COGSA"), 46 U.S.C. §§ 1300-1315 (1982), thereby voiding...

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