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COM. PETROCHEMICALS, INC. v. S/S PUERTO RICO

Civ. A. No. M-76-1126.

455 F.Supp. 310 (1978)

COMMONWEALTH PETROCHEMICALS, INC., et al. v. S/S PUERTO RICO, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority and Leonard Bros. Trucking Co.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

July 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Krach and Barrett W. Freedlander, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

Geoffrey S. Tobias and Kieron F. Quinn and Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., for Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, defendant.

Samuel S. Smalkin, Baltimore, Md., for Leonard Bros. Trucking Co., defendant.

OPINION

JAMES R. MILLER, Jr., District Judge.

In his inimitable way, Chief Judge Brown of the Fifth Circuit, in a related but different context, has stated for me the essence of this case. He said in Wirth Ltd. v. S/S Acadia Forest, 537 F.2d 1272 at 1276 (5th Cir. 1976), reh. en banc den. 541 F.2d 281 (5th Cir. 1976):

"Our principal task in this case is to determine what Congress would have thought...

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