Limar Shipping Ltd. v. United States

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Limar Shipping Ltd. (“Limar”) and OMI Corporation (“OMI”), plaintiffs-appellants, appeal a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee the United States, in a case alleging, inter alia, that the United States was negligent and/or breached warranties in the surveying of the Boston Harbor and the dissemination of nautical charts that failed to accurately depict the depth of the harbor. Plaintiffs claim that the erroneous chart resulted in the grounding of and subsequent damage to their vessel, the M/T Limar. Plaintiffs raise two main issues on appeal,…