274 F. 220 | E.D.N.Y | 1921
This is a hearing on exceptions to the report of a special commissioner, who was appointed to determine the amount to be awarded libelant as damages for injuries sustained by his barge Hudson. The commissioner has allowed $700 the price agreed upon at the survey. The boat was actually repaired later, in another way, for a much less sum. If the work called for by the survey had been done, it would have been worth the amount mentioned. The survey was not necessarily conclusive, nor did the commissioner so find; but he has found that the survey was not controverted nor shown to be incorrect in any particular, and that it does not appear that the repairs made the vessel precisely as strong, staunch, and serviceable as she was before the accident. This must
The exceptions are therefore sustained.
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