Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. North German Lloyd

Citations

• 120 F. 17
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16

Syllabus

<p>L Saltase — Services in Raising Beached Steamships — Negligence.</p> <p>Where after a vessel, beached while on fire, was raised by a wrecking company under an agreement that the service should be compensated as salvage, she listed and sank again through the insufficiency of the precautions taken by the wrecking company, which was due partly to a reliance on misleading statements made by the owner in respect to her stability, in awarding salvage for the work the additional expense made necessary thereby will be divided between the owner and the wrecking company.</p> <p>3. Same — Amount of Award.</p> <p>The amount earned as salvage by libelant, a wrecking company, in raising and clearing from bodies and wreckage the steamships Bremen, Main, and Saale after they had been beached following the fire on the Hoboken dock where they were partly burned, considered and determined.</p> <p>8. Same — Services Rendered to Burning Ship.</p> <p>Salvage compensation awarded to tugs for services in beaching the steamship Saale after she had taken fire at her dock at Hohoken, and in assisting in putting out the fire and saving the lives of persons on board.</p> <p>¶ 2. Salvage awards in federal courts, see note to The Lamingtom, 30 C. C. A. 280.</p>