The Neshaminy
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suits by Charles L. Walker, managing owner of tug Lizzie Crawford, and by John P. Murray, master of the steam tug Delaware, against the schooner barge Neshaminy; Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, claimant. Decrees for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
TPIOMPSON, District Judge.
Both libelants claim for salvage services rendered to the schooner barge Neshaminy. On December 26, 1912, the Neshaminy, a large wooden vessel belonging to the claimant, the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, was upon a floating dry dock of the Philadelphia Ship Repair Company at the foot of Mifflin street, Delaware river, Philadelphia, where she had been for about two weeks undergoing repairs. All of the water was out of the dry dock, and the Neshaminy was resting upon blocks which elevated her to the level of the decks of the dry dock. Upon the north side of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- The San CristobalDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1914
3Cited by2 opinions
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