L'Hommedieu v. The Carondelet

This is an action to recover salvage for services rendered by the steam-tug Ceres to the steam-ship Carondelet, under the following circumstances: On the 22d day of September, 1887, the steam-ship Caron-delet.was lying at the end of pier 20 in the Bast river, fast by lines to pier 20 and pier 19, substantially ready for sea. At about 1 o’clock p. m. of that day a lighter named the “Samuel Baker,” lying on the side of pier 20, loaded with cotton, caught fire. The Carondelet at once threw off all her lines, and the tug Cores, having at the time come to the bows of the steam-ship for the purpose…