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WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION v. DEAN

No. 5781.

171 F.2d 408 (1948)

WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION v. DEAN et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

December 27, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene F. Gilligan, of New York City (Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, and Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, and Southgate L. Morison, all of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

I Duke Avnet, of Baltimore, Md. (Edgar Paul Boyko, of Baltimore, Md., and John P. McKinley, of Savannah, Ga., on the brief), for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The sole controversy on this appeal concerns the amount to be allowed to four officers and twenty-seven men of the Furnifold M. Simmons for their successful salvage services to the S/S Fairisle, which was floated through the efforts of the Simmons after having been stranded in the Bay of Bengal off the east coast of India near a point called Bavanapadu. Neither the master nor five other members of the crew, nor the owners of the Simmons joined...

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