George Bondies v. James P. Sherwood
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, sitting in admiralty. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas, sitting in admiralty. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. The, District Court decreed that the libellants (Sherwood, McClelland, and McGinnis) should recover the sum of fifty per cent, salvage upon $5,150, which' sum was adjudged to the libellants against said steamboat Kate, and against George Bondies, the owner thereof; the money to be raised by a sale of the steamboat, and, in case of a deficiency, execution was to issue against Bondies, to be levied and collected on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The appellees, describing themselves as ship carpenters, residing in Galveston, filed their libel in the district court of Texas against the steamboat Katé, and against Bondies, late master and owner, in a “ cause of salvage, civil and maritime.”
They charge that the steamboat left the port of Galveston, for ports and places on the Trinity river, in said district of Texas, laden with merchandise. That the boat was snagged and sunk in the river near Morse’s bluff, in Liberty county.
" That on the 24th of April, 1856, the libellants entered into an article of agreement, under seal, with Bondies,…
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