AMERICAN EASTERN DEV. CORP. v. EVERGLADES MARINA

No. 76-2044.

608 F.2d 123 (1979)

AMERICAN EASTERN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Florida Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. EVERGLADES MARINA, INC., Defendant, Switzerland General Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Walsh, Mark R. Boyd, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for Switzerland.

Smathers & Thompson, Mercer K. Clarke, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WISDOM, GODBOLD and CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

The appellees owned pleasure boats, one described as a 24-foot yacht, the other as an 18-foot yacht, which were stored in dry storage racks inside a building owned and operated as a marina by Everglades Marina, Inc., located in Florida. The boats were fully operational and were in and out of the water almost weekly, launched and removed from the water by forklift. The purpose of the storage was to obviate storage in salt water with attendant...

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