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USINAS SIDERUGICAS DE MINAS GERAS v. SCINDIA STEAM

No. 96-30876.

118 F.3d 328 (1997)

USINAS SIDERUGICAS DE MINAS GERAS, SA-USIMINAS; Usiminas Importacao e Exportacao, SA-Usimplex, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SCINDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD., in personam; JALAVIHAR M/V, in rem, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Gordon Starling, Jr., Stephanie Douglas Skinner, Gelpi, Sullivan, Carroll & Gibbens, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Hugh Ramsay Straub, Michael MacKenzie Butterworth, Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

While executing a routine turning maneuver in the Mississippi, the JALAVIHAR was grounded, destroying her steering mechanism. The owner of the JALAVIHAR, Scindia Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., declared a general average event and filed the present claim against the cargo owners, Usinas Siderugicas de Minas Geras, SA and Usiminas Importacao e Exportacao, SA (hereinafter referred to collectively as Usiminas), for contribution...

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