Blanksten v. United States

WILL, District Judge.

This action arises out of a collision of the plaintiff’s yacht with a seawall approximately one and one-half miles south of Navy Pier, off the Chicago shoreline. The United States moves for summary judgment, supporting its motion with references to the plaintiff’s deposition and an uneontroverted affidavit filed by an attorney of the United States Department of Justice.

From this affidavit the Court finds that, the seawall with which plaintiff’s yacht collided was constructed by the Chicago Park District over forty years ago, that no agency of the United States ever…