McKNIGHT v. NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO.

No. 18506.

36 F.2d 428 (1929)

McKNIGHT et al. v. NEW ORLEANS COAL & BISSO TOWBOAT CO.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

October 16, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. & H. W. Waguespack, of New Orleans, La., for libelants.

Spencer, Gidiere, Phelps & Dunbar, of New Orleans, La., for respondent.


BORAH, District Judge.

Libelants, members of the crew of the tugs Robert W. Wilmot and H. C. Cadmus, have filed a libel in personam against the New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Company, asking that they be decreed certain sums as salvage. The libelants contend that the services rendered by the aforementioned tugs in pulling the steamship Sapinero and the tug Bayport off a mud lump near the mouth of the river were salvage services, and that therefore they, as members...

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