Lewis v. A Lot of Whalebone

Morrow. District Judge.

This is a suit brought by William Lewis, of New Bedford, Mass., managing owner, and Joseph Whitesides, masr ler, of the steam whaler Belvidere, on behalf of themselves and oí' the other owners, and of the officers and crew of tho vessel, and all others entitled to recover compensation for a salvage service in rescuing a Jot of whalebone from the wreck of the steam whaler William Lewis, near Point Barrow, in the Arctic ocean, October, 1891.

On the morning of the 3d day of October, 1891, the steam whalers William Lewis and Belvidere were engaged in whaling in the Arctic…