WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
Libellants, the appellants here, sued the respondent, Mike Fletchas, for damages in the amount of $1,600 caused by the destruction of their small houseboat during Hurricane Flossy in 1956. They brought the proceeding in admiralty in the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, and appealed from an adverse judgment.
Mike Fletchas, the appellee, operated a small ship repair yard near Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Kreb's Lake...
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