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OHIO BARGE LINE, INC. v. DRAVO CORPORATION

No. 71-33.

326 F.Supp. 863 (1971)

OHIO BARGE LINE, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. DRAVO CORPORATION, a corporation, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY, a corporation, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

May 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair S. McMillin, William Shannon Lerach, Reed Smith Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

Bruce R. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.

OPINION

WEIS, Jr., District Judge.

Few admiralty doctrines have received more criticism and with so little effect as that which holds that agreements for the construction of vessels are not maritime contracts and, hence, not within the purview of admiralty jurisdiction.1 This holding has been repeated many times by decisions of the Supreme Court2 and is now accepted as firmly established, albeit arguably...

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