The Marie Anne
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel for salvage services performed by the steamer Beliver and crew, in towing tlie brigantine Marie Anne into Hampton Roads. The other facts fully appear in the following statement by Hughes, J.: The steamer Beliver, Antonio Planas, master, left New York on the 18th of October, 1882, for Limón, Carthagena, and other ports on the Caribbean sea.
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In Admiralty. Libel for salvage services performed by the steamer Beliver and crew, in towing tlie brigantine Marie Anne into Hampton Roads. The other facts fully appear in the following statement by Hughes, J.: The steamer Beliver, Antonio Planas, master, left New York on the 18th of October, 1882, for Limón, Carthagena, and other ports on the Caribbean sea. At 6 o’clock on the morning of the 20th, she saw the Marie Anne, a French brigantine, showing signals of distress, and went to her. Most- of the crew of the Beliver were Spanish, but Rossello, the first mate, spoke French. At the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts.') This is admitted to be a case of salvage. An ocean steamer, the Bellver, bound from New York to a port within the tropics, having on board a large crew, a number of pas*745sengers, ami a cargo paying a freight of So,000, came in sight, on the morning of the 20th October last, of a sail-vessel holding out signals of distress. The steamer went to her relief and found that the vessel, which was the French brigantine Marie Anne, was infected with pestilence; that within a few days past it hail lost all except three men of its crew with yellow fever, including…
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