The Minnie Miller
District Court, E.D. New York
This was a libel by the owners and the master and crew of the ship Pacific to recover salvage for services rendered to the Minnie Miller. The Pacific fell in with the Minnie Miller about 175 miles from New York, dismasted and in distress. Both vessels were bound to New York.. The ship took hold of the brig and towed her nearly to Sandy Hook, the service occupying five days.
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This was a libel by the owners and the master and crew of the ship Pacific to recover salvage for services rendered to the Minnie Miller. The Pacific fell in with the Minnie Miller about 175 miles from New York, dismasted and in distress. Both vessels were bound to New York.. The ship took hold of the brig and towed her nearly to Sandy Hook, the service occupying five days. The brig’s answer to the libel denied that the service was a salvage service, stating that, though she had lost her masts, yet jury masts had been rigged, by means of which the brig was prosecuting, and could have…
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
The facts proved in this action disclose a case of salvage service rendered by the ship Pacific to the brig Minnie Miller; and a proper reward to be paid therefor by the brig, her freight and cargo, I judge to be the sum of $2,250, the same to be borne by the brig, her freight, and the cargo, in proportion to their respective values. I give the libellants no costs because of the circumstances attending the detention of the brig’s chain by the ship after a demand made therefor
Courts of admiralty are always careful to see that in any case of salvage a proper reward is…
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