Legal Opinion
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 1, 1929No. 2685PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company from an interlocutory decree in admiralty, entered October 6,1927, in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in favor of United States of America, holding the shipbuilding company liable on the ground of negligence for the damages sustained by the United States by reason of a fire on board the steamship America, on March 10, 1926, while the ship was undergoing repairs at the yard of the company at Newport News. A cross-appeal from the decree was taken by the United States.
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- Nash v. TowneSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
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