ORANGE BEACH WATER, SEWER, ETC. v. M/V ALVA

No. 81-7458.

680 F.2d 1374 (1982)

ORANGE BEACH WATER, SEWER AND FIRE PROTECTION AUTHORITY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M/V ALVA, in rem, Barges, SP-3 and SP-4, in rem, Atlas Southern Corporation, McKenzie Services Company, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Fleming, M. Kathleen Miller, Mobile, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

Alex F. Lankford, III, George M. Walker, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, MERRITT and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.


HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This is a suit in admiralty, in personam and in rem, arising out of damage to the plaintiff's submarine water pipeline when it was struck by an unidentified vessel passing on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (the Waterway) near Mobile, Alabama. In its complaint the plaintiff, Orange Beach Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authority (Orange Beach), charged the defendants (collectively, the ALVA) with obstruction of navigation in violation of...

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