Grosse Ile Bridge Company v. American Steamship Company

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that factual findings are clearly erroneous when they have no support in the record
• finding in extremis applicable where bridge failed to timely open but reasoning that captain's reaction to emergency situation was still negligent even under more lenient standard because his delay in dropping anchor to stop vessel's forward movement was unreasonable
• finding in extremis applica- ble where bridge failed to timely open but reasoning that captain’s reaction to emergency situation was still negligent even under more lenient standard because his delay in dropping anchor to stop vessel’s forward movement was unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).