Legal Opinion
The Comet
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided June 11, 1913No. 2,458PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by M. Nilson and others against the gasoline schooner Comet; San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, claimant. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This cause is for decision upon claimant’s exceptions to the libel, which prays for a salvage award on ac*992count of alleged “extrahazardous service_s performed by libelants outside the scope of their employment.” Libelants were fishermen aboard the schooner Comet. It is alleged that:
“The pay of such fishermen was dependent entirely upon the number and weight of the fish caught by them and sold to the owner of the vessel.”
On July 2, 1912,40 miles off Cape Flattery, on account of the breaking of her machinery, the schooner became helpless and uncontrollable, and the…
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- Samuel B. Hobart and Others, of the Brig Hope and Cargo v. Andrew Drogan and Others, LibellantsSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
- Rich v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1899
- The MinnaDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1882
- Sinclair v. CooperSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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