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BUNGE CORP. v. FREEPORT MARINE REPAIR, INC.

No. 99-14019

240 F.3d 919 (2001)

Bunge Corporation, Ranger Insurance Co., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Freeport Marine Repair, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 30, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William David Jester, Timothy Fuller Burr, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr, Gulf Breeze, FL, for Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

John A. Kopfinger, Jr., Robert C. Evans, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Before DUBINA and HULL, Circuit Judges, and HODGES, District Judge.

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

This admiralty action concerns the definition of a "vessel" for purposes of applying burden shifting principles outlined in maritime case law. The appellant Freeport Marine Repair, Inc. ("Freeport") appeals the district court's $196,500.00 judgment against it after a ship owned by Freeport broke free from her moorings and damaged appellee Bunge Corporation's ("Bunge") grain loading facility. Bunge cross...

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