Sheldrake v. Chatfield
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Salvage. Ex parte the Merritt Wrecking Organization, on a petition claiming half of a salvage bounty, which had been sued for as a chose in action by the libelant. Whitehurst & Hughes, for the Brixham.
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, District Judge.
The case in chief was decided by this court on the 14th of March last.1 This petition had been filed on the 25th of February preceding. Upon the facts shown by the record, this court awarded the sum of $12,500 to the Brixham for salvage services rendered to the steamship Chatfield, of which $5,500 was intended in remuneration for expenses and damages incurred by the Brixham, and $7,000 as bounty for a meritorious salvage service. This sum of $7,000 is now in the registry of the court. The service was rendered by the Brixham to the Chatfield on the 27th of October, 1891,…
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