Dexter v. The Richmond
District Court, D. Massachusetts
This was a case in which the libellants, pilots of Martha’s Vineyard, claimed salvage of the owners of the bark Richmond, belonging to Providence, R. I., for services rendered in getting the bark into Holme's Hole, on the 27th of November last, she being forty-two days from New Orleans, bound for Boston.
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This was a case in which the libellants, pilots of Martha’s Vineyard, claimed salvage of the owners of the bark Richmond, belonging to Providence, R. I., for services rendered in getting the bark into Holme's Hole, on the 27th of November last, she being forty-two days from New Orleans, bound for Boston. It was in evidence that the value of the bark, with her cargo, consisting of cotton and lead, was more than 850,000. On the 19th of November, in a violent gale, as appeared by her log, her rudder was lost and a temporary steering apparatus was arranged to supply its place. The evidence of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, District Judge
(in delivering his opinion), said there were three kinds of cases of this nature—one purely salvage, where property had been saved from imminent peril; one purely pilotage; one between the two, where extra services beyond pilotage *621had been rendered, and had become entitled to extra compensation. The present case was one of the latter class. The bark was here in no imminent peril. Her crew was full. There was no distress other than the loss of her rudder, which she had been without for ten days previous to the assistance rendered. The only pretence of danger was the possibility of a change of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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