Powers v. White

WYZANSKI, District Judge.

This is a personal libel for salvage.

On September 23, 1957 this Court filed a memorandum, reported in 155 F.Supp. 518 and 1957 A.M.C. 2093; and, in accordance therewith, two days later entered a decree for the libellant for $140. Thereafter, two disinterested and learned authorities on the law of admiralty, Martin J. Norris, Esq. of Eastchester, N. Y., the author of a forthcoming treatise on The Law of Salvage, and Arnold W. Knauth, Esq. of New York City, the editor of the sixth edition of Benedict on Admiralty, courteously called to this Court’s attention its…