The Marco Reefer - Q.B.D. (Skinner J.) - 19 August 1981

Application for appraisement and sale pendente lite

The plaintiff cargo interests put forward a claim in the sum of about £83,000 alleging damage caused to their cargo of citrus fruit on the passage from Turkey to the U.K. They arrested the vessel at Shoreham in order to obtain security for their claim, but it was immediately made clear to them that: