Bond v. A. H. Bull S. S. Co.
District Court, S.D. Texas
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
This is a suit for salvage services claimed to have been rendered the steamship Eleanor, a vessel owned by the Bull Steamship Company, by certain members of the crow of the Freeport Sulphur No. 1. Neither the owner of the ship nor its officers are suing. The facts are that the Eleanor started to sea, and was stranded on the bar off Freeport, Tex., and was unable with'her own power to get off the sand; that the bottom of the bar where she was aground. *894was sand and mud, and the reason she could not get afloat was that she was held against the edge of the channel by the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- The Lowther CastleDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1912
- The J. C. PflugerDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1901
- Falk v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1922
- Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1922
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