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SCHIAVONE CONST. CO., INC. v. COUNTY OF NASSAU

Nos. 1448, 1449 and 1451, Dockets 83-7024, 83-7110 and 83-7112.

717 F.2d 747 (1983)

SCHIAVONE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., and Edward B. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Associates, Inc., A Joint Venture, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF NASSAU and Gibson & Cushman Dredging Corp., Defendants-Appellees, County of Nassau, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, Gibson & Cushman Dredging Corp., Defendant-Appellee. COUNTY OF NASSAU, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. CONSOER, TOWNSEND & ASSOCIATES, Third-Party Defendant and Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert O. Boyhan, Deputy County Atty., Mineola, N.Y. (Edward G. McCabe, County Atty., Mineola, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee and defendant third-party plaintiff-appellant cross-appellee county of Nassau.

Leslie F. Ruff, New York City (Hart & Hume and Maryellen Chomsky, New York City, of counsel), for third-party defendant and defendant-appellant, cross-appellee Consoer, Townsend & Associates.

Robert A. Kennedy, Garden City, N.Y. (Colleran, O'Hara, Kennedy & Mills, P.C., and David Westermann, Jr., Garden City, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants Schiavone Const. Co., Inc. and Edward B. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Associates, Inc.

Stanley J. Norton, Goshen, N.Y. (Norton & Christensen and Harold J. Gabriel, Goshen, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee Gibson & Cushman Dredging Corp.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, PIERCE and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

This litigation arises out of the failure of a sewerage pipeline constructed by a joint venture, Schiavone Construction Co. and its wholly owned subsidiary Edward B. Fitzpatrick, Jr. Associates, Inc. (Schiavone) under a contract awarded in 1971 by the County of Nassau. The pipeline ran from a waste treatment plant in Wantagh, Long Island to a point in the Atlantic Ocean four miles offshore. It was designed for the County by Consoer...

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