Legal Opinion
Willard H. Lane v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 25, 1975No. 74--2169PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:
In a suit in admiralty arising out of the collision of a cabin cruiser with a sunken barge, the district court concluded that the United States had violated a mandatory duty either to remove the wreck or to mark it and awarded damages to the vessel’s owner. We think the 1965 amendments to one of the statutes makes the duty not mandatory but discretionary, but remand for consideration of the question whether failure to remove or mark the wreck was arbitrary and a violation of the discretionary duty.
Lane took a group of his friends in his 28 foot cabin cruiser for an…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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