Dravo Corporation v. Litton Systems, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., Chief Judge.

Dravo Corporation, organized under the laws of Pennsylvania with its principal place of business in Pittsburgh, and Walter C. Ernest, III, Billie Ann Carrigan and Mrs. Walter C. Ernest, Jr., part ners doing business as Ernest Construction Company, Mobile, Alabama, filed this diversity action against Litton Systems, Inc., a Maryland corporation with its principal place of business in Los Angeles, California, seeking to recover as damages sums of money expended by plaintiffs in prevention of hurricane damage and for repairs caused by the…