The "Connemara."
Supreme Court of the United States
Motion to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, united with a motion to affirm the decree.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
The suit below was by a set of salvors to recover for a single salvage service, and there was but one claim filed for the prop erty saved. The total amount of the recovery was $14,198, but in the division among the several parties entitled to share in the recovery some got less than $5,000. Separate and distinct interests were not united in the suit. The service rendered was the joint service of all the salvors, and the recovery was on that account. It was a inatter of no consequence to the owners of the property saved how the money recovered was apportioned among those who had earned it. The…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Oliver v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1832
- Shields v. ThomasSupreme Court of the United States · 1855
- Rich v. LambertSupreme Court of the United States · 1852
- Seaver v. BigelowsSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
3Cited by26 opinions
- Gibson v. ShufeldtSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Clay v. FieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Illinois Central Railroad Company, Appt. v. Wirt AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Robert E. Hedberg v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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