State Ex Rel. Bruton v. Flying "W" Enterprises, Inc.

Defendants have not excepted to any findings of fact except the finding of fact that a continuation of the diving and salvage operation of the defendants will result in irreparable loss and damage to the State of North Carolina. A number of facts were stipulated by the parties. The parties stipulated in substance that all the hulks or wrecks of the vessels herein involved, together with all the property in and upon them, “lie in the Atlantic Ocean, below the surface of the water at low tide, within a marine league sea-wardly from the Coast of North Carolina, offshore from the waters of…