Pyman v. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas. This was a libel by Charles Clarke and Robert P. Clarke against the steamship Elfrida (Pyman, Bell & Co., claimants) to enforce a contract for salvage compensation. The district court rendered a decree for the libelants in the sum claimed, and the claimants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, District Judge.
The Elfrida was in ballast bound for the port of Velasco, Tex. This was on the 5th of October, 1895. The Elfrida is a British steamship of 1,454 tons net register, 290 feet long, 38 feet beam, and 20 feet 1 inch in depth. Velasco is a Texas port, a few miles from the mouth of the Brazos river. In order to increase the depth of water at the mouth of the Brazos, with the consent of the government of the United States, a corporation has constructed jetties extending from either bank of the river about a mile out into the waters of the Gulf, and the outer ends of the…
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