Morgan's L. & T. R. & S. S. Co. v. The Alaska

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is an action brought to recover salvage compensation for services rendered to the steamship) Alaska, in towing her into the port of New York, in February, 1895, under the following circumstances: The Alaska was a, steamer of 1,799 tons burden, loaded with phospdiate and cotton, bound from Wilmington, Del., to Ghent, by the way of Norfolk. She left Wilmington with but a few tons of coal, expecting to arrive at Norfolk‘in the course of less than a day, and there take in the coal necessary for her voyage. Soon after leaving Wilmington she encountered a violent storm…