Legal Opinion
The A. A. Raven
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 5, 1915No. 4PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by the United States against the steamship A. A. Raven. On exceptions to commissioner’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
The argument upon these exceptions necessarily takes on in large measure the academic form. That submitted to us on behalf of the United States is artful (in the compli-*959mciitary sense of that term), forceful, and in many of its features irrefutable. It does not follow, however, that its deductions must be accepted. It belongs to that kind of argumentation to whose refutation the capacity of the highest intellect may be unequal, and yet the deductions of which would be rejected by a mere modicum of common sense. The explanation of this lies in the truth that its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The ConquerorSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
3Cited by3 opinions
- McCabe v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1919
- The A. A. RavenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1916
- Halloran v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1921