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NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 2685.

34 F.2d 100 (1929)

NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

July 1, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roscoe H. Hupper and F. H. Skinner, of Newport News, Va. (Burlingham, Veeder, Masten & Fearey, Chauncey I. Clark, and Ira A. Campbell, all of New York City, E. M. Braxton, of Newport News, Va., and P. Fearson Shortridge, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

F. R. Conway, Asst. Admiralty Counsel, U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C., and H. H. Rumble, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. (Paul W. Kear, U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and Arthur M. Boal, Admiralty Counsel, U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee and cross-appellant.

Before WADDILL, PARKER, and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company from an interlocutory decree in admiralty, entered October 6, 1927, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in favor of United States of America, holding the shipbuilding company liable on the ground of negligence for the damages sustained by the United States by reason of a fire on board the steamship America, on March 10, 1926, while the ship was undergoing...

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