Legal Opinion
The Gerbeviller
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided July 8, 1929PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is a ease of salvage. The Gerbeviller is a five-masted schooner. On November 27,1928, while on a voyage from Newport News to Newfoundland with a cargo of coal, she got into trouble near the south end of Georges Bank, about 30 miles southeast by east of the Nantucket Lightship. A northwest gale was blowing, she had lost some of her sails, she was leaking, and she signaled for help. The steam trawler Widgeon saw the signals -and stood by. At the time the sea was too rough for the trawler to launch a boat. The schooner’s own boat was stove, in an effort which her crew…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Murphy v. SulioteU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana · 1880
- Coast Wrecking Co. v. Phœnix Insurance Co. of BrooklynU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1882
- The ShawmutDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1907
- The ThetaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1905
- The B. C. TerryDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1881
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Hamburg-American Line v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1948
- Breving v. Lloyd CuartoDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1949
- Powers v. WhiteDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1957
- In Re the Snow MaidenDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1958
- Powers v. WhiteDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1958
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