The Minnie E. Kelton
District Court, D. Oregon
In Admiralty. Suit by the Washington Marine Company, owner, and H. ,C- Nason, master, of the steam schooner Washington against the steam schooner Minnie E. Kelton.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
This is a libel to recover salvage for the rescue of the steam schooner Minnie E. Kelton by the schooner Washington.
The Kelton left Grays Harbor on her second trip to San Francisco about 10 o’clock on Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1908, with a mixed cargo of ordinary small lumber, shingles, lath, scantling, and boards, being laden about half on deck and half within the hold. The deck load was secured in the ordinary way, by chains running across from stanchions. Soon after leaving port, the schooner encountered *239heavy weather, which increased in severity until she…
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- The BlackwallSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- The Barque Island City— Pierce, Cromwell, LibellantsSupreme Court of the United States · 1862
- The S. C. SchenkCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1907
- The Henry Steers, Jr.District Court, E.D. New York · 1901
- The ShawmutDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1907
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