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COVE SHIPPING, INC. v. DOSS

No. BI-425.

485 So.2d 1326 (1986)

COVE SHIPPING, INC., Appellant, v. Richard DOSS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David V. Hutchinson, Sr. Admiralty Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Richard P. Warfield, of Levin, Warfield, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, Pensacola, for appellee.

THOMPSON, Judge.

Cove Shipping, Inc. (Cove) appeals a final order of the trial court which treated Cove's untimely motion to dismiss as a motion for relief from judgment under Rule 1.540, Fla.R.Civ.P., and which denied the relief sought. Cove contends that the ship on which Doss was allegedly injured was a public vessel owned by the United States, and that under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 741-752, and the Public Vessels Act, 46 U.S.C.A. ...

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