Legal Opinion
Drake Towing Company, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. Meisner Marine Construction Company v. United States of America, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 13, 1985No. 84-7478PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS R. MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
The Dauphin Island Bridge crosses the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which runs east to west, in Mobile County, Alabama. As found by the district court, the “project channel” in the vicinity of the bridge has a width of approximately 150 feet and runs roughly down the middle of the Waterway. It is subsumed within the Waterway’s “navigable channel.” The navigable channel, approximately 350 feet wide (including the width of the project channel), is bounded on the north by a line of red buoys and on the south by a series of black buoys. The Army Corps of…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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