The Gulfport
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. Suit by the Ollinger & Bruce Dry Docks Company against the tug Gulfport. On motion to set aside decree for libelant.
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, District Judge.
This matter comes on to be heard on the motion to set aside the decree heretofore rendered in favor of the libelant and to dismiss the libel for the reason, as set up in said motion, that the tug Gulfport, which was libeled for salvage, was carried by the water, as raised by the storm of July 5, 1916, high and dry on land above and beyond the ordinary high-water mark.
The facts of this case are that the tug Gulfport was in a sectional dry dock belonging to libelant for the purpose of having certain repairs made upon it, when the violent storm of July 5, 1916, came on,…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. DunhamSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- The BelfastSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Cope v. Vallette Dry Dock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Ex Parte Phenix Insurance CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- The TornadoSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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