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LAURITZEN v. CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE AND TUNNEL DISTRICT

No. 8678.

259 F.Supp. 633 (1966)

J. LAURITZEN, Owner M/S BELLA DAN, Libelant, v. CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE AND TUNNEL DISTRICT, and Tidewater Construction Corporation, Raymond International Inc., and Peter Kewit Sons' Company, a joint venture, trading as Tidewater-Raymond-Kewit and Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation, Respondents.

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

October 20, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., Hugh S. Meredith, Norfolk, Va., for libelant.

Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, R. M. Hughes, III, Norfolk, Va., for Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel Dist.

Jett, Sykes & Berkley, R. Arthur Jett, Norfolk, Va., for Tidewater Construction Corp.

Williams, Cocke, Worrell & Kelly, Jack E. Greer, Norfolk, Va., for Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.

MEMORANDUM

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

The question to be decided on respondent's exceptions to the libel filed herein is whether the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District, a political subdivision of the State of Virginia, is immune from an action brought in admiralty to recover damages to libelant's vessel arising from the ship's striking an underwater obstruction which respondent allegedly permitted to remain in a navigable ship channel following...

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