Robinson v. States S. S. Co.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is brought by claimants for loss of life and personal effects from a decree limiting petitioner’s liability for such claimed loss in the wreck of petitioner’s steamship Nevada off Amatignak Island of the Aleutian group on September 27, 1932, on a voyage to Asiatic ports. The decree in granting limitation made findings establishing negligence in the petitioner’s navigating officer, proximately causing the wreck, absence of privity, and knowledge in petitioner, and the amount of the fund for limitation. Thus it completely disposed of the issue of petitioner’s…