The Yankee
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for tire Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Suit in admiralty by John S. Latta, trading as John S. Datta & Co., Charles H. Whitney and S. Wheaton Smith, copartners as Charles H. Whitney & Co., the Benjamin F. Shaw Company, the Glen Brook Coal Company, and Paul J. Devitt against the dredge Yankee, the Rivers & Harbors Improvement Company, claimant. Decree for claimant, and libellants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODDEY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, affirming tire report of a Commissioner and dismissing five libels filed against a vessel for supplies. As the report was affirmed and the decree entered 'without an opinion, we must assume that the Commissioner’s findings were accepted by the court as an expression of its views.
It is not necessary to recite or even summarize the testimony of each case. It will be sufficient to state only so much thereof as will present to the best advantage the theory of the law upon which the claimant made its defense and the…
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