Grosvold v. Booth Fisheries Co.

NETERER, District Judge.

This is a libel for salvage referred to the commissioner to take testimony and report findings of fact and conclusions of law to the court. Findings and conclusions have been filed, and exceptions have been filed thereto.

The commissioner, in substance, finds that the libelant is the sole owner of the El Hurd, a wood construction craft 64 feet long, 11 feet beam, 6% feet draft, gross tons 39, net tons 26, halibut fishing type; that the libel-ant lived at Sand Point, Simeonof Island, Alaska; that, among other things, he served a mail route touching several islands in the…