Neel v. Iron City Sand Co.

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty in a suit which was instituted by the appellants to recover for salvage services claimed to have been rendered to the steam vessel Return. The District Court awarded the libellants the sum of $25, and ordered each party to pay its own costs. We have considered the case de novo, upon the only questions it involves. They are: (1) Was the aid which was rendered to the Return a salvage service, or one of towage merely? (2) If in fact and in law it was a salvage service, was the libelant precluded from asserting it to be so?

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