BALLAM v. UNITED STATES

No. 83-1120.

747 F.2d 915 (1984)

Loy Ree B. Marlowe BALLAM, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, and State of South Carolina, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria A. Iizuka, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Henry Dargan McMaster, U.S. Atty., Glen E. Craig, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., Robert L. Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant.

Augustine T. Smythe, Charleston, S.C. (Morris A. Ellison, Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, Charleston, S.C., H.F. Bell, Chesterfield, S.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The appellee, Loy Ree B. Marlowe Ballam, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, 552 F.Supp. 390 (1982) claiming erosion damage to her real property caused by the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW). Because the claim was for less than $10,000, the district court had jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2). The district court awarded Ballam ...

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