Legal Opinion
Scholastic Inc. v. M/V KITANO
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 31, 2005No. 02 CIV. 2997(DC), 02 CIV. 6389(DC)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
On March 22, 2001, a fire broke out on the M/V Kitano as it was at sea. The fire was not extinguished until the next day, and a number of containers of cargo were damaged.
These related admiralty cases were filed by cargo owners against, inter alia, the vessel owner as well as General Carbon Corporation (“General Carbon”). General Carbon owned two forty-foot containers of activated carbon that were being shipped aboard the vessel. The fire apparently started in one of the two containers.
General Carbon filed third-party claims against certain third-party defendants,…
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