Twenty-Three Bales of Cotton

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is an action brought to obtain at the hands of "the court an award of salvage for services rendered in respect to twenty-three bales of cotton. The action has been hotly contested, and evidently a state of feeling has grown up between .the parties that has rendered necessary the adjudication of a demand which, under other circumstances, would have been easily adjusted by the parties themselves. The feeling alluded to impels me to give the case a more extended examination than either the amount or the questions of law involved would ordinarily call for. The…