Court Opinion

ID: 9448924
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:49:54.729669+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:36.896016
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On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
Appellants have filed a petition for rehearing in which they ask us to determine the damages ourselves rather than to remand that matter to the district court. The cases which they cite, with one exception, are all relatively old. Even that one relied upon Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. Southern Pacific Co., 1925, 268 U.S. 146, 45 S.Ct. 465, 69 L.Ed. 890, a case decided at a time when an admiralty appeal constituted a trial de novo.
The matter of the mandate did not escape our attention at the time of our original decision. We have been slow to make independent findings of damages, even in admiralty, and our only recent exception has been when we believed we were in exactly the same position as the district court. The Texas Co. v. R. O’Brien & Co., Inc., 1 Cir., 1957, 242 F.2d 526. In our view, our only alternatives here were to send the matter back for a new determination by the district court, or to determine ourselves, not our view of the damages, but the minimum amount of damages which could have been awarded by the district court without constituting reversible error. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. United States, 2 Cir., 1945, 152 F.2d 46, 49. Of these alternatives we prefer the former.
The petition for rehearing is denied.