The Almora
This text of 250 F. 1018 (The Almora) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Decree affirmed with costs.
The opinion of Van Yechten Veeder, District Judge, in) the lower court, was as follows: The evidence leaves no doubt in my mind that the Almora was properly moored, and that no neglect of any reasonable precaution may be attributed to her. She broke loose in a hurricane, at a túne when the wind reached a velocity of 75 miles an hour. It seems to me to be a clear case of inevitable accident The libel is dismissed, without costs.
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