Brown v. Merritt Wrecking Organization
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. This was a libel in admiralty by the Merritt Wrecking Organization against the British steamship Haxby to recover compensation for salvage services.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. This was a libel in admiralty by the Merritt Wrecking Organization against the British steamship Haxby to recover compensation for salvage services. The district court awarded to the salvors the sum of $27,500. Upon a prior appeal to this court this award was held to be excessive, and was reduced to $16,666.06|. See SB Fed. 715. On the receipt of the mandate from this court the district court entered a decree for libelants in the sum specified, with interest from January 19,1897, the date of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The court, without filing any written opinion, thereupon reversed the decree below, and remanded the cause, “with instructions to enter a decree in favor of the Merritt Wrecking Organization for the sum of $16,G66.66§, with interest thereon from the 3d day of November, 1897”; this being the date of the decision on the prior appeal.
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