Legal Opinion
The Ereza
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 29, 1903No. 19PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit to recover for salvage services.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This is a case of salvage, which presents the usual dispute concerning the sum to be awarded to the salvor in payment for expenses, delay, and meritorious service. The principal facts, which are for the most part not in controversy, are as follows:
The Ereza is a Spanish steamship of 4,838 tons gross, and 2,599 tons net, register, and was built of steel, in 1894. On January 18, 1902, she left the Austrian port of Fiume, bound for Philadelphia, carrying a cargo of 44,000 bags, or about 4,400 tons, of raw beet sugar, worth $124,520.12, upon which the amount of the…
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