United States v. Lester F. Alexander & Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, which asserts a claim, based on the assignment to it of claims of seamen for services to th,e steamship Minnesota, against the $3,750 for which that vessel was sold, complains of two salvage awards against that vessel, one of $625 in favor of Lester E. Alexander & Co., and the other of $1,240 in favor of Bisso Towboat Company. On January 27, 1921, the Minnesota, when at anchor in the Gulf of Mexico, off the mouth of the Mississippi river, and having boiler troubles which disabled it from proceeding-under its own power, sent out a wireless call for help,…