The Carroll
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, in Admiralty. For opinion below, see 163 Fed. 425. Before PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge, arid MORRIS and BRAWLEY, District Judges.
1Per curiam
This is a case of salvage in which the claimants of the three barges salved have appealed upon the ground that the allowances in the District Court were excessive.
The steam tug Bohemia, proceeding from Baltimore to Norfolk with a tow of five barges, all loaded with coal, was, during the night of January 26, 1908, caught in a gale of wind from the south-southwest with a heavy sea when near Thimble Eight, off Old Point Comfort. The wind and sea caused the barges to labor heavily and the waves to break over them. The Bohemia, although a powerful tug of the first class for Chesapeake Bay towing,…
2Cited by2 opinions
- The Professor KochDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1919
- The Samuel B. HubbardDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1915