SALVORS v. UNIDENTIFIED WRECKED & ABANDONED VESSEL

No. 16-11246.

861 F.3d 1278 (2017)

SALVORS, INC., a Florida corporation, f.k.a. Cobb Coin Company, Inc., Plaintiff, 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels, LLC, c/o 608 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, Plaintiff-Appellee, Gold Hound LLC, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNIDENTIFIED WRECKED & ABANDONED VESSEL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 5, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard Joseph Sullivan, Jr. , Sullivan & Company, Jacksonville, FL, for Intervenor-Appellant.

Ernest Leroy Reddick, III , Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL, Eric Joseph Taylor , Attorney General's Office, Orlando, FL, David Paul Horan , Darren Michael Horan , Horan Wallace & Higgins, LLP, Key West, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Cara Anne Higgins , Horan Wallace & Higgins, LLP, Key West, FL, for Salvors, Inc., a Florida corporation, f.k.a. Cobb Coin Company, Inc.

Before MARCUS, JILL PRYOR, and SILER, Circuit Judges.


This in rem admiralty proceeding began in 1979, when Cobb Coin Company retrieved a cannon from wreckage discovered off the coast of Florida. That cannon was part of a shipwreck dating back to 1715, when eleven Spanish galleons carrying gold, silver, and precious...

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