Merritt v. The Wandrahm

BEXEDTOT, District Judge.

The steamship Wandrahm having been wrecked in the St. Lawrence river, her owners made a contract with the Morse Iron Works, a corporation of the state of NTew York, by which the vessel was to be raised by the Morse Iron Works, brought to New York, and there repaired so as to restore her to her former condition, the whole for the sum of $60,000, to he paid by the owners to the Morse Iron Works. Thereafter, the Morse Iron Works employed the libelants to do certain work in raising the vessel then sunk in the St. Lawrence river, in pursuance of *936which employment the…