The Key West

This suit is for salvage services in case of fire in the port of New Orleans. The following facts are undisputed.(1) That on the morning of January 5, 1881, the steam-boat Win. Pagan, lying at the wharf at the head of Bienville street, in this city, took fire and soon burned. (2) That the steam-boat Key West at the time lay along-side of the Fagan, the bows of the two boats about six feet apart, and the sterns a much greater distance apart, the Key West being below the Fagan, with the wind and eddy both going up stream. (3) That the alarm of fire vras given by tho Key West, the watchman…