The Northern Indiana
District Court, N.D. New York
Various libels in rem were filed in the district court against the steamboat Northern. Indiana, to recover damages for a collision. HALL, District Judge. Considerable time-having elapsed since the argument of these causes, I have examined with great care the very full minutes of testimony taken by meat the hearing, and have endeavored to ascertain, with as much certainty as practicable, the material facts upon which the rights of the parties depend.
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Various libels in rem were filed in the district court against the steamboat Northern. Indiana, to recover damages for a collision. HALL, District Judge. Considerable time-having elapsed since the argument of these causes, I have examined with great care the very full minutes of testimony taken by meat the hearing, and have endeavored to ascertain, with as much certainty as practicable, the material facts upon which the rights of the parties depend. The testimony, as in most cases of collision, is indefinite and conflicting, and, in respect to questions of time and distance, necessarily…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
I have examined the pleadings and proofs in this case, and entirely concur in the very able opinion delivered by the learned district judge in the court below, and in all the views there taken by him, and in the conclusions at which he arrived.
It would be a work of supex'erogation on my part to go over the case again. The proofs are clear and decisive, that the collision occurred through the failure of the mate and tbe hands on board of the Northern Indiana to properly observe the familiar nautical rules, in the navigation of their vessel, on the occasion and under the…
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