Legal Opinion
The Ragnarok
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 11, 1908PublishedCited by 7 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for salvage.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
Services-were rendered by the tug Henry Gillen and her crew -to the steamer Ragnarok, upon the occasion -of an exceedingly fierce and troublesome-fire at Miller’s-plaster mill, on Newtown creek- in .this district, upon the morning- of -August 23, 1906. The Ragnarok is a steel freight steamer, worth some $65,000, and the claimant’s stipulation for value in this action was fixed at $5,000. The Gillen was a tug-of average capacity, and worth at the •time perhaps .some $18,000. At the time the .fire broke out, the Ragnarok-was-lying at a wharf immediately adjacent to the…
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- New Harbor Protection Co. v. Steamer Charles P. ChouteauDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1881
- Spreckels v. The State of CaliforniaDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1890
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