Morse v. Pomroy Coal Co.

CARPENTER, District Judge.

This is a libel in admiralty by owners of the ship against the owners of the cargo on a general average bond. The only question now to be determined by the court is the amount proper to be allowed for salvage.

The facts shown by the evidence may be stated, using the words of the libelants, as follows:

The four-masted schooner Charles E. Balch, with a cargo of 1,309 tons of coal, on a voyage from Norfolk, Va., to Providence, R. I., ran ashore on the west side of Dutch Island, in a gale, on the afternoon of May 3, 1893. The master notified the libelants, Morse & Co., of…