William O. Douglas

“ It seems to me quite improvident for us to reweigh the fragments of the evidence which Learned Hand, Augustus N. Hand, and Harrie B. Chase, JJ., weighed, see 197 F.2d 795, 799-801, and to revise the decision which their experienced minds reached on the totality of the facts of the case. Yet if we were to do so we could not escape the conclusion that the voyage had been frustrated at least by the time the Portmar reached Darwin on February 12, 1942. ”

“ The decision turns on the weighing of many factors and conditions against a background of admiralty practice and custom with which we are nowhere near as familiar as the experienced admiralty judges below. ”