New Orleans, B. R. M. & C. A. Steamship Co. v. Weltzin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. This was a libel in rein by the New Orleans, Belize Royal Mail & Central American Steamship Company, Limited, against the steamship G-ambetta, Hjalmar Weltzin and others, claimants, to recover for salvage services rendered by libelant’s steamer Breakwater.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. This was a libel in rein by the New Orleans, Belize Royal Mail & Central American Steamship Company, Limited, against the steamship G-ambetta, Hjalmar Weltzin and others, claimants, to recover for salvage services rendered by libelant’s steamer Breakwater. The district court rendered a decree awarding salvage in the sum of $2,216.60f, and the libelant appealed, claiming that the amount was insufficient.
1Opinion of the Court
BO ARMAN, District'Judge.
Libelant claims salvage compensation in the sum of $6,000 for rescuing defendant steamship Gambetta from a point in the Caribbean Sea, near to the Island of Cozumel, and for towing her from that point to the mouth of the Mississippi river, a distance of about 520 miles. The evidence shows that the steamer Breakwater, while on her voyage from New Orleans to the port of Belize, observed the Gambetta, lying outside of, and a few miles distant from, the usual track of vessels, flying distress signals; that she was disabled so that she could not rescue herself from the…
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