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STATE EX REL. ERVIN v. MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY

95 So.2d 902 (1956)

The STATE of Florida, by and through Richard W. Ervin, as Attorney General of the State of Florida, et al., Appellants, v. The MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY, a Joint Venture Composed of Southern Scrap Material Company, Ltd., a corporation, N.D. Friedman Company, a corporation; and Eastern Scrap and Salvage Company, a corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

On Rehearing June 12, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Ralph M. McLane and John D. Moriarty, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

R.H. Merritt and Joe J. Harrell, Pensacola, for appellees.

J.B. Hopkins, Pensacola, for intervenors.

ROBERTS, Justice.

This controversy had its inception in activities of the appellee, the Massachusetts Company, looking toward the "salvage" of the old battleship Massachusetts, which lies sunken in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Escambia County in the territorial waters of the State of Florida. The State of Florida, by its Attorney General, filed the instant suit to enjoin the Company from proceeding with such...

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