The Neptune
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Libel in admiralty by Alfred S. Walling and another against the steam tug Neptune, her engines, etc., in which one Hans Swensen (libel-ant in another cause against the same vessel) intervened. Decree for libelants, and intervener appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
Libelants were members of the Neptune’s crew at a time when she rendered salvage services to the barge Columbia. They sue for themselves and the rest of said crew, but by what authority they represent their fellows does not appear.
The owner of Neptune, at time of salvage service, demanded and received, by private treaty, from Columbia’s owners, a sum of money which (between the two owners) was deemed to be “full payment for the salvage services” aforesaid, and he neither paid nor offered to pay any portion thereof to libelants or other crew members. Shortly thereafter the…
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