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256 F. 846

Docket No. 1657.

The Powhatan

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided January 7, 1919.)

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1919-01-07

<p>Collision <§=339 — Steam Vessels Meeting — Grossing Signals.</p> <p>Decree, holding one of two meeting steamships solely in fault for a collision for crossing and failing to comply with the proper signal of the other for passing port to port, affirmed.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on The Powhatan

Affirmed · Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1919-01-07

¶1Collision <§=339 — Steam Vessels Meeting — Grossing Signals.

¶2Decree, holding one of two meeting steamships solely in fault for a collision for crossing and failing to comply with the proper signal of the other for passing port to port, affirmed.

¶3Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge.

¶4In Admiralty. Suit by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company against E. D. Goff, with cross-libel, for collision between steamships Powhatan and Telena. Decree against the Powhatan (248 Fed. 786), and her claimant appeals.

¶5Affirmed.

¶6H. H. Little, of Norfolk, Va., Daniel H. Hayne,, of Baltimore, Md., and John F. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Hughes, Little & Seawell and John W. Oast,"Jr., ail'of Norfolk, Va., and Lewis, Adler & Laws, of Philadelphia; Pa.,-on the brief), for appellant.

¶7Floyd Hughes, of Norfolk, Va., and J. Parker Kirlin, of New York City (Hughes & Vandeventer, of Norfolk, Va., and Kirlin, Woolsey & Hickox, of New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

¶8Before KNAPP ánd WOODS, Circuit Judges, and ROSE, District Judge.

¶9PER CURIAM.

¶10We have carefully examined the record and deem it unnecessary .to add anything to the full and fair discussion of the case in the opinion of the court below, reported under the. title of “The Powhatan — The Telena,” 248 Fed. 786. The controversy turns wholly on a question of fact, and ample testimony supports the findings and conclusion of the learned district judge.

¶11We'are satisfied that the case was correctly decided, and the decree will, accordingly, be affirmed.

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