ALFORD v. APPALACHIAN POWER CO.

No. 91-3017.

951 F.2d 30 (1991)

Edward Neal ALFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Abraham Sanzone, Paul Whitehead Associates, argued, Lynchburg, Va., for plaintiff-appellant.

James Wilson Jennings, Jr., Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, Va., argued (H. Allen Glover, Jr., Kevin S. Blair, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, Va., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before RUSSELL and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HERLONG, District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.


OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

In Price v. Price, 929 F.2d 131 (4th Cir. 1991), we held that a tort claim arising out of alleged errors in navigation on the John H. Kerr reservoir, which straddles the North Carolina-Virginia border, came within the admiralty jurisdiction of the federal courts. We must decide here whether a tort claim arising from an accident on Smith Mountain Lake, another of the lakes on the Roanoke...

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