The Clara
District Court, S.D. New York
[In admiralty. Libels by the New York Harbor Protection Company, owner of the steamtug Clara Clarita, against the schooner Clara to recover for services rendered in extinguishing a fire, and by Augustus M. Cox .and others, owners of the schooner, against the tug to recover the damages caused by the fire.]
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
These are two causes heard together. The libel in the first above entitled cause is filed by the ■owners of the steamtug Clara Clarita, to recover a salvage compensation for services rendered to the schooner Clara, in extinguishing a fire on board of her. The libel-lants are a corporation, and the libel is filed on behalf of the libellants and of all others entitled. .The substance of the libel is, that, on the evening of the 1st of August, 1870, a fire broke out on board of the ferry-boat James Watt, lying in a slip on the New Jersey shore, opposite the city of New…
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