Travelers Insurance Co. v. Metropolitan Dade County

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant insurance company sues as the subrogee of the owner of a boat docked at a marina owned and leased by the defendant-appellee Dade County. The vessel burned to the water line after it came in contact with another which had caught fire in an explosion while being fueled. The sole presently-asserted basis for the county’s liability1 lies in the fact that when attempts were made to extinguish the original fire with a hose and water pump provided at dockside by the county, no water whatever was available allegedly because of defects in the water…