Legal Opinion
Wright v. The Felix
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 20, 1894No. 18 of 1893PublishedCited by 3 opinions
This was a libel by Wrigbt and others against tbe bark Felix to recover salvage.
1Opinion of the Court
BUTLER, District Judge.
On October 80,1892, the hark Felix, a steel vessel of near 1,000 tons, was at the Atlantic Refining Company's wharf, Point Breeze on the Schuylkill, awaiting a cargo of oil. An explosion occurring near hy, the flames which followed.set fire to the wharf and hark, and also to the Elena Gr, another vessel moored outside her, laden with a cargo of refined petroleum. Both vessels were in danger of destruction, and while burning were pulled out from the wharf by the efforts of several tugs which came to their aid. The rigging of the vessels was so entangled that it was…
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