Legal Opinion
Tampa Ship Repair and Dry Dock Company, Inc. v. Esso Export Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 24, 1956No. 16070PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
On May 28, 1954, the S. S. Cortes, owned by Tampa Ship Repair & Dry Dock Co., Inc., was chartered under demise form with a ■ restricted purchase option to South Pacific Steamship Lines, Inc. The charter contained, in the usual and unmistakable language, a provision 1 absolutely forbidding the creation of maritime liens.
Esso Export Corporation, with knowledge both of ownership of the vessel by Tampa and the fact of some character of charter (with purchase option) to South Pacific, thereafter supplied bunkers to S. S. Cortes at several ports in June and July 1954…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- McAllister v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- United States v. CarverSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Dampskibsselskabet Dannebrog v. Signal Oil & Gas Co. of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- C. J. Dick Towing Co. v. The Leo Commercial Petroleum & Transport Co. v. Texas Co. The DispatchCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
- Frontera Fruit Co. v. DowlingCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- Incas & Monterey Printing & Packaging, Ltd. v. M/V SANG JINCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
- Colonial Press of Miami, Inc. v. The British Motor Vessel Allen's Cay Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Equipment, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Diaz v. the S.S. SeathunderDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1961
- Ocean Cargo Lines, Ltd. v. North Atlantic Marine Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1964
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