Logue Stevedoring Corp. v. The Dalzellance. The Grace A. Dalzell. The Lloyd H. Dalzell. The Joseph Alston

This case seems to have bogged down in a welter of procedural technicalities. Latterly, at least, we have more and more reached the merits of admiralty and civil cases alike, through uniformly applying the* civil rules, in both form and spirit, by analogy or comity or common sense. If such a course is actually impossible here, then we have an effective demonstration of a crying need for reform in the admiralty practice. But I am not yet persuaded that the situation has become quite as acute as the opinion herewith tends to suggest.

Cutting through the procedure the case seems a relatively…