Stevens v. The City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe United States for the Eastern District; of New York. In Admiralty. Libel by Stevens and others against tbe steamship City of New York for collision. Decree for libelants. Respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The learned district judge who heard this cause in the court below did not express any opinion in deciding it upon the facis or law of the cause, and we are wholly uninformed of the reasons which led Mm to conclude that the libelants were entitled to recover. In controversies involving questions of negligence there is usually less difficulty in applying the rules of law to the facts than in ascertaining what the facts really are. In the present case the findings of the trial judge, in whose presence the important witnesses for the parties were examined, would have been…
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