The Emma F. Angell
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suits by James Thomas and by Arthur Johnson against the schooner Emma F. Angelí, which have been consolidated.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
To decide a controversy such as this the trier of facts has need of something little short of omniscience. As is to be expected, the real facts cannot be found from the testimony of two men, or sets of men, who are shut up together in a ship and look at everything, not only from different, but antagonistic, points of view. The main controversy is over the fact as to whether this vessel was properly provisioned. The contract fortunately is clear. The act of Congress is plain. If this act is not to be enforced, except in that class of cases in which owners and masters…
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