Panama Railroad v. Napier Shipping Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIROUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a libel in personam, filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, to recover damages sustained by the libellant through injuries received by its steamer Stroma, while lying at the respondent’s pier in the port of Colon.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIROUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a libel in personam, filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, to recover damages sustained by the libellant through injuries received by its steamer Stroma, while lying at the respondent’s pier in the port of Colon. The undisputed facts of the case were substantially as follows: The libellant was a British corporation and owner of the steamer Stroma, and the respondent a New York corporation, and the proprietor of certain piers known as piers Nos. 1 and 2 at Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The main question in this case is one of fact, and turns upon the point whether the accident to the Stroma was caused by the negligence of the respondent, or that of the libellant.
1. It is claimed that, upon this hearing, we are limited to the question of damages, for the reason that the writ of certiorari was issued after the decrees of the District and Circuit Courts, dismissing the libel upon the merits, had been reversed; the case remanded to the Circuit Court to assess the damages, a final decree of the Circuit Court for $38,861.86, and a second appeal to the Court of Appeals, which had…
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