Legal Opinion
Whitmire v. United States
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided June 30, 1980No. 79-8084-Civ.-NCRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ROETTGER, District Judge.
Plaintiff has been a commercial fisherman for 20 years and started fishing on Lake Okeechobee about 1970. With the lake lighted by a full moon on November 26, 1977, plaintiff struck an unlighted, unmarked and unauthorized piling while returning with his sons from laying out a two-mile set of trot lines. Plaintiff’s 18 foot Skipjack plywood boat with a 55 h.p. motor was making 30 knots and riding on the plane when it hit the piling. Plaintiff sued under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741, et seq., for damage to his boat and injuries to himself and his sons.
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- Logue v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- De Bardeleben Marine Corp., as Successor in Interest to Blue Stack Towing Company v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Willard H. Lane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Chute v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Williams by and Through Sharpley v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1983