Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. Read
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Suit in admiralty for salvage by the Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Company against A. C. Read, master of the steamship Kia Ora and claimant and bailee thereof, and her cargo and freight money. From a decree for less than claimed (246 Fed. 143), libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The District Court awarded $100,000 to Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Company, on a claim of $600,-000 for salvage service to the British steamship Kia Ora. The libel-ant appealed alleging the award to be grossly inadequate. The Kia Ora on February 24, 1917, reached the Crooked Island Passage in the Bahama Islands on her way from Melbourne, Australia, to London, via the Panama Canal. In the evening of that day, the vessel struck a coral reef and grounded thereon from about amidships nearly to the bow. In response to her wireless call, the Wrecking Company, from its…
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