Legal Opinion
Kittelsaa v. United States
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 26, 1948No. A-18044PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYERS, District Judge.
This is a salvage cause in which the officers and crew of the Motor Vessel Montauk Point (seagoing tug) seek an award for salvaging the S. S. Abraham Baldwin, a steel screw steamship owned by the United States, of 7,176 gross and 4,-380 net tonnage, 422.8 feet by 57 feet, on May 19, 20, and 21, 1946.
The services are admitted in general, and the case for the Government is, first that they were rendered by the libellants while the latter were attached to the government-owned Montauk Point which was being operated by Moran Towing Company, and were involuntary in that they…
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- The LauraSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- The ExcelsiorSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Jacobson v. Panama R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1920
- Falk v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1922
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