Case ID: f_30/html/0204-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Benedict, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wilson v. Winchester.
    
    
      (District Court, E. D. New York.
    
    October 22, 1886.)
    Salvage — Fire—Schooner at Pier — Hauled into Stream — Award — Additional Costs.
    A fire broke out in oil-works not far from the pier where the respondent’s steam-schooner lay loaded with case-oil. Libelant’s tug took hold of her, and drew her out into the stream. Held, that the service was a salvage service, for which libelant should recover §200, besides §25 added to his taxable costs.
    In Admiralty.
    
      Alexander & Ash, for libelant.
    
      Benedict, Taft & Benedict, for respondents.
    
      
       Reported by Edward G. Benedict, Esq., of the New York bar.
    
   Benedict, J.

The service rendered by the libelant, was clearly a salvage service, entitled to be compensated as such. The bill of $200, presented by the libelant for his services, was, in my opinion, a reasonable bill, under the circumstances, and should have been paid. I award the libelant, therefore, that sum as his salvage reward. For that sum, together with his costs, he ma¡y have a decree, and I add $25 to the taxable costs, in order to reduce by so much the libelant’s expenses of the litigation made necessary by the defendants’ refusal to pay the libelant’s reasonable bill.