FINORA CO., INC. v. AMITIE SHIPPING, LTD.

No. 94-1853.

54 F.3d 209 (1995)

FINORA COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AMITIE SHIPPING, LIMITED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Dennis James Christensen, Wise & Cole, P.A., Charleston, SC, for appellant. Douglas Manning Muller, Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, P.A., Charleston, SC, for appellee. ON BRIEF: D. Kay Tennyson, Wise & Cole, P.A., Charleston, SC, for appellant. Benjamin Allston Moore, Jr., Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, P.A., Charleston, SC, for appellee.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and WILKINSON and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge ERVIN and Judge WILKINS joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this admiralty case is whether vessel owners with contractual liens on subfreights owed to charterers of their vessels must give actual notice of those liens to third-party obligors. Because vessel owners are in the best position to disclose the existence of such liens, we think actual...

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