Clarke v. The Rita
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. This was a libel by Charles Clarke and others against the steamship Rita, for salvage. The district court rendered a decree for libelants. They and certain interveners appealed, assigning as error that the amount awarded was inadequate.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. This was a libel by Charles Clarke and others against the steamship Rita, for salvage. The district court rendered a decree for libelants. They and certain interveners appealed, assigning as error that the amount awarded was inadequate. Charles Clarke & Co., a firm composed of Charles Clarke, Robert P. Clarke, and Pred A. Brock, owners of the steam tug Seminole, for themselves and others interested as salvors, filed a libel in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas on…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). “Salvage, in its simple character, is the service which volunteer adventurers spontaneously render to the owners in the recovery of property from loss- or damage at sea under the responsibility of making restitution, and with a lien for their reward.” Mad. Shipp. 608. “Salvage is the compensation due to persons by whose voluntary assistance a ship or its lading has been saved to the owner from impending peril, or recovered after actual loss.” Ben. Adm. § 300. “Salvage consists of an adequate compensation for the actual outlay of labor and expense used in the…
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