The Fair Oaks
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit for salvage by the Grays Harbor Tugboat Company against the steamer Fair Oaks; Thomas Pollard, claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This suit is one for salvage. On the 25th of August, 1909, the libelant salved the Fair Oaks, after she had become disabled by striking in going over the bar at Grays Plarbor, outward bound to San Francisco.
The answer admits and alleges: That at the time the assistance was rendered the fires of the Fair Oaks had been put out by the water rising in the hold, within 25 minutes after striking. That part of her deck load had been jettisoned. Some of her seams had opened. She struck on the bar four or five times. The first time she struck, her rudder was put out of…
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