The Cotati

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.

This libel was filed to recover for salvage services rendered to a eargo of frozen meat in going to the rescue of and towing to a safe port a disabled vessel in which the eargo was being carried. Armour & Co., the owners of the eargo, have impleaded the United States upon the ground that, if any salvage services were rendered, they were made necessary by reason of the unseaworthiness of the steamship, which was a merchant vessel of the United States, and the failure of the latter properly to man, equip, and supply her.

The United States excepts to the petition…