Richard Construction Company, Inc. v. Monongahela and Ohio Dredging Company

OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in an admiralty action in which the plaintiff, appellee, was awarded $3,997.50 and the defendant’s counterclaim was denied.

Richard Construction, plaintiff, brought suit against the defendant, appellant, Dredging Company, for breach of contract to transport appellee’s one-

story frame building seven miles up the Monongahela River by scow. Plaintiff had purchased the building from the Corps of Army Engineers at a public auction for $400.; a condition of that sale required the buyer to remove the building from the land…