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PATAPSCO SCRAP CORP. v. MARYLAND SHIPBUILD. & DRY. CO.

No. 7876.

268 F.2d 817 (1959)

PATAPSCO SCRAP CORPORATION, Appellant, v. MARYLAND SHIPBUILDING & DRY-DOCK COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Owen, Baltimore, Md. (James D. Peacock, and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

George E. Beechwood, Philadelphia, Pa. (William B. Rafferty, Baltimore, Md., Beechwood & Lovitt, Philadelphia, Pa., and Miles & Stockbridge, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

During Hurricane Hazel a ship broke away from her moorings in Baltimore Harbor, and ran into and damaged a nearby pier. The Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, owner of the pier, filed a libel in admiralty against Patapsco Scrap Corporation, owner of the ship, the S.S. Isaac T. Mann, which was then in the process of being scrapped. The District Court gave judgment in favor of the pier owner in the agreed amount of the damage, $86,000...

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