Legal Opinion
The Emma C. Knowles
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 25, 1902No. 31PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to recover for salvage services.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This case needs rather to be decided than to be discussed. I shall content myself, therefore, with stating the conclusions at which I have arrived after considering the testimony and the earnest arguments of counsel.'
1. The case is one of salvage. The schooner was a capsized *782derelict, and both tugs rendered salvage services in bringing her to the port of Philadelphia.
2. The necessary services of the Sea King were comparatively unimportant, and all that she did, from beginning to end, would be amply compensated by a payment of 10 per cent, of the amount…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Bray v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1908
- State ex rel. Esser v. District Court of the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of NyeNevada Supreme Court · 1918
- United States v. SchmollU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1907