Indra Line, Ltd. v. Palmetto Phosphate Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Judge. Proceeding in admiralty by the Indra Line, Limited, owner of the steamship Indrakuala, against the Palmetto Phosphate Company and others, for limitation of liability. Prom a decree holding the ship in fault for a collision and allowing claims against her, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
Judge Waddill, in his opinion in the District Court (219 Fed. 600), has stated the facts fully. The owners of the Indrakuala here assail so much of his conclusions as holds that ship in fault. Their case has' been presented with ability and force. Nevertheless a minute examination of the record leaves us unable to say that he was wrong.
[1] At the time of the collision the Indrakuala was in charge of a compulsory pilot. Her advocates now contend that under such circumstances her owners cannot, in this proceeding instituted by them to limit their liability to the value of…
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