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PRICE v. PRICE

No. 90-1480.

929 F.2d 131 (1991)

Stella S. PRICE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Marshall E. PRICE, Sr., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Phillips, Jr., argued (Thomas L. Phillips, Phillips, Phillips & Phillips, on brief), Rustburg, Va., for plaintiff-appellant.

Eleanor A. Putnam Dunn, argued (Bevin R. Alexander, Jr., R. Edwin Burnette, Jr., Edmunds & Williams, P.C., on brief), Lynchburg, Va., for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

We must decide in this case whether a negligence claim based on personal injury, sustained when a passenger disembarked from a small pleasure boat on the John H. Kerr Reservoir in Virginia, is within the admiralty jurisdiction of the federal courts under 28 U.S.C. § 1333.

On the afternoon of August 15, 1987, Stella S. Price was one of several passengers on a motorboat being operated by her husband, Marshall E. Price, Jr., on the...

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