Merritt v. The St. Paul
District Court, S.D. New York
These were two libels, one in rem against the steamship St. Paul, and the other in personam against her owner, the International Navigation Company, to recover for salvage services rendered to the said steamer by the libelants, Israel J. Merritt and Israel J. Merritt, Jr., composing the Merritt Wrecking Organization, and the president and the directors of the Insurance Company of North America.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libels were filed to recover compensation for salvage services rendered to the steamship St. Paul, which was stranded on the Jersey coast in a dense fog at North Long Branch, about 14 miles south of Sandy Hook, at about 10 minutes past 1 o’clock in the morning of January 24, 1896. She was got off on the 4th of February following. She was a new steel steamship of the finest class, finished about four months previous at a cost of $2,650,000. Her cargo was valued at $1,999,3 39, more than half of which was in gold coin and bars, and the rest, about 700 tons, was…
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- Coast Wrecking Co. v. Phœnix Insurance Co. of BrooklynU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1882
- Compagnie Generale Transatlantique v. HoguetDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1888
- Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. New York, H. & R. Min. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1896
- The SusanDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1859
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