The Wexford

BENEDICT, District Judge.

The libel is filed in this action, to recover salvage of the brig Wexford and her cargo. The material averments are, that on the 14th day of October, 1871. the pilot boat Isaac Webb, while cruising in about lat. 41° 11' and long. 66° W. discovered the brig dismasted and in distress; that at the request of the master, the pilot boat took the brig in tow, and, after nine days’ towing, brought her in safety into New York; that the brig was helpless and unmanageable and short of provisions and her crew exhausted; that the master and owner of the brig, at the time of the…