Legal Opinion
Wong Wing Fai Company, S.A. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 29, 1988No. 86-2515PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Senior District Judge:
This appeal involves a time charter between the plaintiff, Wong Wing Fai Company, owner and operator of the oil tanker VIRA 8, and the defendant, the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy (hereinafter usually referred to as “the Navy”). The district court had jurisdiction under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 741-752. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 1294(1).
BACKGROUND
In March of 1975 the chartered vessel, the VIRA 8, entered Vietnamese waters with the shipowner’s knowledge that maritime insurance companies considered the…
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