Legal Opinion
Somerset Seafood Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 19, 1951No. 6295PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOBIE, Circuit Judge.
The Somerset Seafood Company (hereinafter called Somerset) filed a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, under the Federal Tort Claims Act (hereinafter called the Act), seeking damages from the United States for the loss of Somerset’s oyster boat, The T. H. Anderson, alleged to have been stranded on the wreck of The San Marcos (the old battleship Texas, renamed), which, in 1911, had been sunk by the United States in the navigable waters of Chesapeake Bay. The complaint alleged that the loss of The Anderson was due solely to the…
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