Samuel B. Hobart and Others, of the Brig Hope and Cargo v. Andrew Drogan and Others, Libellants
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. The ship Hope was bound to Mobile from Havana, in January, 1832, with a cargo of fruit, sugar, coffee, segars, and. tobacco.
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ON appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. The ship Hope was bound to Mobile from Havana, in January, 1832, with a cargo of fruit, sugar, coffee, segars, and. tobacco. She arrived off the port of Mobile on the 24th January, 1832, took a pilot, and was carried safely within Mobile Point, to a place at which the pilots are usually discharged; the pilot then left her, and she proceeded some distance up the bay, and came to anchor about six miles within Mobile Point. In the night, the wind rose to a powerful gale; in the course of which the brig…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is an appeal from a decree of the district court for the southern district of Alabama, in the case of a libel for salvage, instituted in the court below by the appellees. That decree awarded to the appellees one-third of the appraised value of the brig and cargo as salvage : the appraised value being $15,299 58.
The material facts .of the case are as follows. The brig Hope, belonging to Charlestown, near Boston, being on a voyage from the Havana to the port of Mobile, on the 24th of January 1832, took a pilot (who was one of. the-libellants) about ten miles W. S. W. from Mobile point, by…
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