CARTER-GREEN-REDD, INC. v. USS CABOT/DEDALO MUSEUM FOUND.

Civ.A. No. 90-3168.

756 F.Supp. 276 (1991)

CARTER-GREEN-REDD, INC. v. USS CABOT/DEDALO MUSEUM FOUNDATION, in personam, and the M/V DEDALO, her engines, tackle, appurtenances, etc, in rem.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

January 31, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Lawton and Gary Alan Hemphill, Terriberry, Carroll & Yancey, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Derek Anthony Walker, Chaffe, McCall Jose Santiago Canseco, John N. Critchlow, III, and Troy Geary Ingram, New Orleans, La., for defendants.


ROBERT F. COLLINS, District Judge.

This Court is faced with the question of whether an option contract dealing with the lease of a vessel falls within this Court's admiralty jurisdiction. Finding that based on the facts of the instant matter, this Court lacks admiralty jurisdiction, this action is hereby DISMISSED.

Defendant, U.S.S. Cabot/Dedalo Museum Foundation ("Foundation"), has moved this Court for summary judgment in its favor. In the alternative, the...

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