HIRAM WALKER & SONS, INC. v. KIRK LINE

Nos. 87-5048, 87-5094, 87-5111 and 88-5180.

877 F.2d 1508 (1989)

HIRAM WALKER & SONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KIRK LINE, et al., Defendants, Indian River Transport, Inc., Defendant-Appellant. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KIRK LINE, et al., Defendants, Eller & Company, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, Indian River Transport, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KIRK LINE, R.B. Kirkconnell & Bro. Ltd., et al., Defendants, Indian River Transport, Inc., Defendant-Appellant. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. KIRK LINE, R.B. Kirkconnell & Bro., Ltd., Jamaica Merchant Marine Atlantic Line Ltd., Indian River Transport, Inc., SS MORANT BAY, its engines, boilers, etc., Defendants, Eller & Company, Inc., Indian River Transport, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Leibowitz, Jay M. Levy, Hershoff & Levy, John D. Kehoe, David F. McIntosh, Corfett, Killian, Hardeman, McIntosh & Levi, Miami, Fla., for Indian River Transport, Inc.

John P. D'Ambrosio, Elmsfore, N.Y., for Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc.

Christian D. Keedy, Smathers & Thompson, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Craig Drake Olmstead, Miami, Fla., for Eller & Co., Inc.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Circuit Judge.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc.1 (Hiram Walker), filed this action in the Southern District of New York against defendants Indian River Transport, Inc. (Indian River), Eller & Company, Inc. (Eller), R.B. Kirkconnell & Bro., Ltd. (Kirk Line), and Jamaica Merchant Marine Atlantic Line, Ltd. (Jamaica Line), seeking damages for the loss of several thousand gallons of the liqueur Tia Maria. Upon...

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