[Download] "Bonanni Ship Supply Inc. v. United States" by Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Bonanni Ship Supply Inc. v. United States
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 07, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Venita Therrell, Alexandria Thacker, and Grace Tate Peterson (collectively, "the Tate heirs") brought a diversity action in federal district court against Georgia Marble Holdings Corporation, Walter Industries, Inc. d/b/a The Georgia Marble Company, and Jim Walter Corporation (collectively, "Georgia Marble"). Plaintiffs, who are fractional heirs to certain mineral interests in land mined by Georgia Marble, charged defendants with, inter alia, conversion of marble at a site known as Cove Mountain and conversion and breach of contract at a site known as Tate Quarries, with respect to which plaintiffs also brought an equitable claim for an accounting. The district court granted a directed verdict for defendants on all the Tate Quarries claims. On the Cove Mountain conversion claim, a special verdict by the jury determined that the material mined at the Cove Mountain site was marble, the mineral in which the Tate heirs held an interest, and the court awarded damages to the Tate heirs. The court also ruled, however, that Georgias statute of limitations limited their recovery to conversion that occurred within four years of bringing the suit. The Tate heirs appeal from the courts statute of limitations ruling on the Cove Mountain claim and the courts directed verdict on the Tate Quarries equitable accounting claim. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand the case to the district court for a new trial on the equitable accounting issue.