Daniel v. A Cargo of Lumber
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. Suit by F. M. Daniel and F. B. Annan against a cargo of lumber; the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, District Judge.
This is a libel filed claiming salvage of a lot of lumber formerly loaded on the schooner Emma S. Lord, of Bangor, Me. The great bulk of this lumber was loaded in the schooner under her decks, and a portion of the lumber was loaded above decks and fastened down, as is customarily done. It appears that the schooner loaded in Mobile and started out, when the storm of July 5, 1916, caught *her in the lower bar and blew her out of the anchorage, blowing her masts off and turning her over in about 13 feet of water.
Theviargo of lumber has been turned over to the insurance…
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