Legal Opinion
The Niagara
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 8, 1898PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libels were filed to recover compensation for salvage services rendered by the steamship Mamaluke and the tug Colon, September 9 to 12,1897, in hauling the steamship Magara oil Colorado Shoals in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, where she had grounded in going up the bay. The Magara is an iron screw steamship 275 feet long, of 2,265 gross tons and valued at $125,000, running on Ward’s line and carrying passengers and freight to Cuban ports. Her cargo at this time was worth $4,157. The shoal where she grounded is about one-third of the way up from Morro Castle to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Duff v. MerrittCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
- Thomas v. The FlorenceDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1895
3Cited by2 opinions
- Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware v. Hubble Towing Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1932
- Joncich v. XitcoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949