Frederick Leyland & Co. v. Holmes

The learned judge who sat in the court below placed on record a memorandum of his reasons for refusing a new trial, which we here quote in full:

“PARLANCE, District Judge. I shall state briefly my reasons for refusing a new trial.

“The first specification of the motion for a new trial is an assertion that the court shifted the burden of proof frorn the libelant to the claimant and thereby committed error. That specification is entirely without foundation. When stating orally my reasons for decreeing in favor of libelant, I said that he had, in my opinion, fully met the burden of proving…