Case ID: f_264/html/1021-04.html
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Author: {"author": "I’ER CUEIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE ONTARIO. THE MELBOURN P. SMITH.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    January 12, 1920.)
    No. 1743.
    Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk: Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Suit in admiralty for collision by E. J. Leseman, master of the schooner Melbourn P. Smith, against the sloamsliip Ontario, with cross-libel. Decree for libelant, and claimant appeals.
    Affirmed on opinion below. 256 Fed. 45.
    E. M. Hughes, Jr., and Hughes, Little & Seaweli, all of Norfolk, Va., for appeliant. Edward E. Baird, Jr., and Baird & White, all of Norfolk, Va., and McFarland, Taylor & Costello, of New York City, for appellee.
    Before PRITCHARD and WOODS, Circuit-Judges, and WATKINS, District Judge.
   I’ER CUEIAM.

Careful consideration of the record and arguments leads to the conclusion that the District Court was right, both in findings of fact and application of the law. Nothing of value can be added to the opinion of the District Judge. Afiirmod.