Grace S. S. Co. v. Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co.

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals from a final decree of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, dated April 22, 1924, in the consolidated maritime causes brought against the American steamship Santa Rosa, and her cargo and freight money, for salvage services rendered to the vessel by five tugs, the Waban, the Cecelia, the Manomit, the Clincho, and the Hinton, all of Charleston, the tug MeCaulley, of Savan-. nah, the tug I. J. Merritt, of Norfolk, and R. H. Lockwood of Charleston. The services were rendered under these circumstances: The Santa…