The Truxillo

BURNS, District Judge.

The United States of America, as owner of the steamship City of Weatherford, claims salvage of the American Steamship Truxillo. The libel is on behalf of the owner, and also of the crew, of the City of Weatherford. .The alleged salvage services consisted in the. towing of the Truxillo from a point about 40 miles off South Pass, in the Gulf of Mexico, to the lightship of that pass at the mouth of the Mississippi river.

The evidence shows that the Truxillo had left the port of New Orleans January 15, 1924, bound for Miami, via Key West, Pla.; that outside of the passes she…