Legal Opinion
The America
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 23, 1905PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit to recover for salvage service.
1Opinion of the Court
LANNING, District Judge.
The first question presented by the pleadings and proofs in this case is whether the libelants performed a salvage service. It appears that on the night of February 27, 1904, the steam lighter America was tied at the dock of the Borne Scrymser Company, on Staten Island Sound. One of the crew had been assigned to duty as watchman for that night. About midnight a fire broke out in the buildings covering the dock where the America was lying. When the alarm was given the owner of the vessel, Capt. Daniel McElroy, hastened to the dock; but, finding that his access to the…
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