Legal Opinion
Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 21, 1924No. 2229PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, Circuit Judge.
The libel in this ease was filed by the appellant herein under the Suits in Admiralty Act of March 9, 1920, to recover for services performed by it in salving the steamship Naiwa in September, 1920.
On the 15th day of August, 1920, the Naiwa, a steamship of 6,240 tons gross, belonging to the United States Shipping Board, while en route from Jacksonville, Pla., for Yokohama and other ports in the Par East by way of the Panama Canal, with a cargo consisting of steel plates, wire, tobacco, cotton, manufactured goods, and other merchandise, when about 275 miles out from…
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- The CamancheSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Samuel B. Hobart and Others, of the Brig Hope and Cargo v. Andrew Drogan and Others, LibellantsSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
- The SybilSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. ReadCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1918
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3Cited by6 opinions
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