THOMSEN, Chief Judge.
Respondent has excepted to the libel on the ground that the claim alleged is not within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.
The libel alleges that at or about 2100 hours on April 24, 1965, libelant, a citizen of Virginia, whose boat was moored at respondent's pier in the West River near Shady Side, Maryland, fell into navigable water through a hole in an extension to the pier, several hundred feet from shore, when he went onto the...
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