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BLAKE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 416-418.

181 F.Supp. 584 (1960)

Edward P. BLAKE, Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. Odell M. BLAKE, Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. Eldridge COOK, Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Newport News Division.

March 10, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ferguson, Yates & Stephens, Wm. McL. Ferguson, Newport News, Va., Catesby G. Jones, Jr., Gloucester, Va., for libellants.

John M. Hollis, U. S. Atty., Norfolk, Va., Wm. C. Baker and Thomas P. Griesa, Trial Attys., Dept. of Justice (Admiralty & Shipping Section), Washington, D. C., for respondent.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In three actions consolidated for trial, libellants seek damages for the alleged taking, without compensation, of certain oyster grounds in the lower York River between Tue Marshes Light and Gloucester Point, and for the unlawful removal of stakes and buoys delineating the boundaries of the leaseholds; said oyster grounds having been lawfully leased by libellants, or their predecessors in title, from the Commonwealth of Virginia...

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