Hudson v. Whitmire
District Court, N.D. Florida
This was an action in personam by Benjamin Hudson and others against K. J. Whitmire to recover compensation for salving timber found adrift on Pensacola Bay. The cause was heard on exceptions to the libel.
1Opinion of the Court
SWAYNE, District Judge.
This is an action in personam by Benjamin Hudson et al. against K. J. Whitmire to recover compensation for saving timber adrift and in peril of loss and damage in Pensacola Bay. The libel sets up the finding and saving of 550 pieces, more or less, of timber; that respondent subsequently, and while said timber was in possession of salvors, caused a writ of replevin to issue from the state court, against libelant Hudson; and the sheriff of Santa Rosa county, Fla., by virtue of a writ of replevin, took said timber into his possession, and would deliver the same to the…
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