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PITTS v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 76-4262-C.

457 F.Supp. 1018 (1978)

Edmund R. PITTS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Military Sealift Command Atlantic, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

October 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund M. Pitts, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Patrick A. Fayle, Trial Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

OPINION

CAFFREY, Chief Judge.

This is a civil action which was originally filed as an action for breach of a contract for wages with an ad damnum of $877.78. Subsequently, plaintiff amended the complaint to increase the ad damnum in the contract claim to $1,800, and, a few months thereafter, plaintiff again amended the complaint to add a second count in tort for libel with an ad damnum of $100,000. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and, after...

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