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MORDICA v. NORFOLK SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK CORPORATION

No. 8104.

194 F.Supp. 282 (1961)

John E. MORDICA, trading as Little Creek Diesel Power Co., Libellant and Cross-Respondent, v. NORFOLK SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK CORPORATION, Respondent and Cross-Libellant.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

May 29, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Batchelder, Jr., Myer Koteen, Norfolk, Va., for libellant and cross-respondent.

Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., for respondent and cross-libellant.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In the fall of 1959 libellant was the successful bidder on a salvage contract awarded by the Corps of Engineers for the raising of the trawler Minnie V sunk on the north side of Thimble Shoal channel between the No. 2 and No. 4 buoys. The sunken trawler was 50.2 feet in length, 15.4 feet in breadth, 6.7 feet in depth, and weighed 26 gross tons. Libellant initially surveyed the job on or about November 16, 1959, at which time it was...

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