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RECOVERY LTD. P'SHIP v. S.S. CENTRAL AMERICA

No. 14-1950.

790 F.3d 522 (2015)

RECOVERY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The WRECKED AND ABANDONED VESSEL S.S. CENTRAL AMERICA, Defendant, Robol Law Office; Richard Thomas Robol, Claimants-Appellants, and Collette Davidson; Milton T. Butterworth, Jr., Claimants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 22, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Richard Thomas Robol , Robol Law Office, LLC, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. Conrad M. Shumadine , Willcox & Savage, P.C., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Brett A. Spain , Willcox & Savage, P.C., Norfolk, Virginia; James L. Chapman, IV , Steven M. Stancliff , C. Wiley Grandy , Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee Recovery Limited Partnership.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN and Judge THACKER joined.

The S.S. Central America, loaded with tons of gold en route from San Francisco to New York, sank in a hurricane off the coast of South Carolina in 1857. Columbus-America Discovery Group ("Columbus-America"), acting as the agent for Recovery Limited Partnership ("Recovery Limited"), discovered the wreck in the 1980s...

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