AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in behalf of the owners of cargo from a final decree in admiralty holding 27,907 bags of coffee liable in rem and the respondents liable in personam for salvage services rendered to a cargo of coffee laden on board the steamship Pelotas, which stranded on Gallequilla Reef while entering the harbor of Vera Cruz, Mexico, on September 15, 1923. The question before us is whether the award by the District Court was excessive...
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