KIM CREST, S.A. v. M.V. SVERDLOVSK

No. Civ. A. H-87-3377.

753 F.Supp. 642 (1990)

KIM CREST, S.A., Plaintiff, v. M.V. SVERDLOVSK, in rem, and the Baltic Shipping Company, in personam, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

December 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Bullard, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Mark Cohen, Houston, Tex., for defendants.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HUGHES, District Judge.

1. Introduction.

On October 28, 1987, the M.V. Sverdlovsk, traveling inbound in the Houston Ship Channel, rammed the starboard quarter of the M.V. Cisco, damaging both vessels. Baltic Shipping Company escapes direct in personam liability because the compulsory pilot was solely at fault. Baltic Shipping Company, as an agent of the Union of Soviet Socialist...

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