Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. Morris & Cummings Dredging Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

Both parties except to the amount which the commissioner has found to be due to the libellant here. The libellant besides objecting that there is no merit in the respondent’s exceptions, contends that they should not be considered because they do not conform to the requirements of The Commander-in-Chief, 1 Wall. 43, 17 L. Ed. 609. The respondent has called my attention to The Paquete Habana, 189 U. S. 453, 23 Sup. Ct. 593, 47 *155L. Ed. 900, where it was held, referring to The Commander-in-Chief, that where all the evidence is attached to the report nothing more is needed.…