O'Callaghan v. Lowndes
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. This was a libel by Stanley H. Lowndes and others against the barge Ernest M. Munn for salvage. The district court entered a decree in libelants’ favor for $700 over and above $600 already received by him. 61 Fed. 694 The claimant, Walter O’Callaghan, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
LAOOMBE, Circuit Judge.
About 7:30 a. m. of November 28, 1893, the libelants’ oyster steamer picked up tlie barge, which was then adrift and derelict, in Long Island Sound, with a cargo of coal, about a mile and a quarter from the east end of Copp Island. The total value of the property saved was about $3,200. The Munn was towed to libelants’ home at Five Mile River, and tied up to the dock. On the second day thereafter the claimant came to Five Mile River, and offered to give the salvors $300, and such additional sum as could be obtained from the insurance companies. They refused to settle…
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