BRIGHT, District Judge.
The question to be answered on this retrial is, what caused the S. S. Thomas Hooker to be lost as a result of the cracking of her plates on March 5th, 1943.
This suit has been sent back for further findings, because the testimony of Hathaway, the master, and of Nesbit, called as an expert, both witnesses for the respondent, was "baffling and unsatisfactory and it seems to us that justice will be best secured by having them reexamined...
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