Eagle Terminal Tankers, Inc., as Owner of the "Eagle Courier," Plaintiff v. Insurance Company of U.S.S.R. (Ingosstrakh), Ltd.

FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Whitman Knapp, J., to defendant appellee Insurance Company of U.S.S.R. (Ingosstrakh), Ltd. in an action brought by plaintiff-appellant Eagle Terminal Tankers, Inc. (Eagle). Plaintiff Eagle sued to recover a general average contribution from defendant, the cargo insurer, for Eagle’s expenses in repairing damage to the propeller of its ship, the S. S. Eagle Courier. Because the district judge construed the applicable “law and rules of general…