FOR OFFICIAL USE
(No. 7856A.)
"ROYALSTAR" (S.S.).
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.
PROBATE, DIVORCE AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION.
(Admiralty.)
DIVISIONAL COURT.
Before the Right Honourable Lord Merrivale,
President, and
The Honourable Mr. Justice Hill.
1927. Folio 198.
On Appeal from a Court of Formal Investigation into a shipping
casualty.
In the matter of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894-1906, and Rule
19 of the Shipping Casualties and Appeals and Re-hearings Rules,
1923, and
In the matter of an Appeal from the Finding of a Court of Formal
Investigation held at Singapore on the 25th and 26th days of
January, 1927, into the stranding of the Steamship "Royalstar," of
London, in the Straits of Singapore, on the 13th day of January,
1927.
23rd March, 1928.
The Divisional Court, being assisted by Captains OWEN-JONES and
A. H. MORRELL, two of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, and
having heard Counsel for John MacLeod, Appellant, and Counsel for
the Board of Trade, Respondents, pronounced in favour of the appeal
of the said Appellant from the finding, judgment or decision of a
Court of Formal Investigation or Inquiry held at Singapore on or
about the 25th and 26th days of January, 1927, whereby the said
Court held the said John MacLeod to be in default and censured him
in respect of the damage occasioned to the S.S. "Royalstar" in the
Straits of Singapore on the 13th January, 1927, set aside the
finding, judgment or decision and set aside the censure, and
condemned the Board of Trade in the costs of the Motion dated the
22nd November, 1927, but made no order as to the costs of this
appeal.
(Sd.) MERRIVALE.
(Sd.) MAURICE HILL.
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