Adams v. The Island City
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[In admiralty. Libel for salvage. Decree for libelants.] This was a suit in admiralty, in a cause of contract civil and maritime, and of extra services rendered by the steamer It. B. Forbes to the barlt Island City and her crew; and was removed Into this court pursuant to the act of the 3d of March, 1S21, on the certificate of the district judge that he was so concerned in interest as to render it improper for him, in his opinion, to hear the cause.
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[In admiralty. Libel for salvage. Decree for libelants.] This was a suit in admiralty, in a cause of contract civil and maritime, and of extra services rendered by the steamer It. B. Forbes to the barlt Island City and her crew; and was removed Into this court pursuant to the act of the 3d of March, 1S21, on the certificate of the district judge that he was so concerned in interest as to render it improper for him, in his opinion, to hear the cause. The bark Island City left Galveston on the 10th of December, 1856, laden with cotton and hides, and bound on a voyage to Boston. She made Cape…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
All the evidence tends to show that the peril was continuous from the first moment, when the schooner went to the relief of the bark, down to the time when the steamer Westem-port anchored her in the port of Hyannis, in a condition so crippled and d Isa Died by the disaster she had encountered that .the service of the other steamer was indispensable to get her into Boston, where she was bound. She was in very great peril when relieved by the schooner, and was by her placed in a position of far less exposure. Those on board the schooner were prevented from doing more…
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