The C. F. Ackerman
District Court, E.D. New York
In admiralty. This was an action brought by the owners of the brig Homely to recover as damages a sum the Homely was ordered to pay as salvage. See the case of The Homely [Case No. 6661].
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This action is brought by the owners of the brig Homely, to recover of the tug C. 3?. Ackerman the damages arising from failure to perform a contract to tow the brig from sea into the port of New York. The evidence shows an employment of the tug and that she took the brig in tow upon a hawser; that shortly after passing the Hook, the brig, while in the tow of the Ackerman and following her, brought up upon the tail of the Romer shoal, whence the Ackerman was unable to pull her off that evening. On the next morning the tug Weed and the Ackerman, together, made fast to…
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