Legal Opinion
Park v. Direct Navigation Co.
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided July 18, 1918No. 71PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Libel in personam by W. G. Park against the Direct Navigation Company, Incorporated.
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
This is a libel in personam, brought by W. G. Park, owner of the tug R. C. Veit, on behalf of himself and the captain and crew, for salvage services rendered the tug Louise, the property of the respondent, the Direct Navigation Company, under the following .circumstances:
About noon on the 27th day of March, 1914, the tug Louise, an oil-burning tug, having taken oil into her tank at Southern Pacific Pier A, cast loose to go on her way to Lynchburg. Before she had gotten out of the slip into the channel, the engineer discovered an oil fife in her bilges, and immediate…
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