The Jumna
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal and cross-appeal from a decree of the District.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal and cross-appeal from a decree of the District. Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing the libel and cross-libels and deciding that the collision between barge No. 19, in tow of the tug Gypsum King, and the steamship Jumna, and the subsequent collision of said barge and the schooner Gypsum Emperor with the New Haven Railroad’s pier No. 38, East river, was the result of inevitable accident. The opinion of Judge Holt in the District Court is reported in 140 Fed. 743.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
It is conceded on all hands that, except in a few unimportant details, the facts are fully and accurately stated in the opinion of the district judge. He has carefully considered the conflicting theories of fault and has reached the conclusion that .negligence has not been established as to any of the vessels participating in the collision. To arrive at this result it was necessary for him to determine several disputed questions of fact regarding which it is sufi *172ficient to say that in many instances he was unquestionably right and in no instance is the finding so clearly…
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