Gilchrist v. Godman

(orally). Tire libel is for services iu connection with an attempt to save tlie schooner American Union, stranded about May G, 1894, at Thompson’s Harbor, on Lake Huron. The vessel was at the time of the stranding owned by the respondent Aimetta S. Hodman, and insured for about two-thirds its value in the respondent insurance companies. The master of the vessel at the time was James 1*. Hodman. When the vessel stranded, her master employed the libelants to come to her assistance with tugs, pumps, hawsers, lights, and other wrecking appliances calculated to Make her off the beach. The…