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STATE OF MAINE v. UNITED STATES

No. 3854.

134 F.2d 574 (1943)

STATE OF MAINE v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 27, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan W. Thompson, of Portland, Me. (Frank I. Cowan, of Portland, Me., on the brief), for appellant.

J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., (Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., Allan B. Lutz, of Washington, D. C., and John D. Clifford, U. S. Atty., and Edward J. Harrigan, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Portland, Me., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges, and SWEENEY, District Judge.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

On August 14, 1941, the State of Maine filed a libel in personam in admiralty against the United States, as owner of the Coast Guard Tender Ilex, "in a cause of collision civil and maritime". In this suit the State seeks to recover for damages which it alleges it sustained on August 17, 1939, when the above named vessel ran into one of the piers of a state-owned highway bridge spanning the Kennebec River at Bath. The United States Attorney...

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