Case Name: The Plymouth Rock, etc.
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1882-06-12
Citations: 12 F. 927
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Plymouth Rock, etc.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 12
Pages: 927–928

Head Matter:
The Plymouth Rock, etc.
(District Court, S. D. New York.
June 12, 1882.)
1. Towage Services — PasseNgee, Steamer.
To entitle a libellant to recover salvage compensation for towage services the claimant’s vessel must be shown to have been in either actual or apprehended danger at the time the services were rendered.
2. Practice — Costs.
Where salvage compensation was claimed for towage services, and the answer admitted the claimant’s liability for a' reasonable towage compensation, the libellant recovered a reasonable sum for towage, without costs, and was adjudged to pay the United States marshal’s costs.
In Admiralty.
Note. This case is a corrected report of the same case, found ante, p. 634, which was inserted inadvertently before the return of the corrected proof from the judge who rendered the decision.
This was a libel filed by the master and owner of the steam-boat City of Eiehmond, to recover $5,000 as salvage compensation for assistance rendered to the steam-boat Plymouth Bock, under the circumstances described in the opinion of the same court, reported in The Plymouth Rock, 9 Fed. Rep 413, ,415, et seq.
Lorenzo Ullo, for libellant.
Sidney Chubb, for claimant.

Opinion:
Brown, D. J.
When the aid of the City of Eiehmond was requested by the captain of the Plymouth Eock, the latter, as I find upon the evidence, was neither in actual nor apprehended danger, being in tow of the Germania, which was fully able to take care of her. The request for aid was merely to expedite her passage and to take off her passengers for their more convenient landing. It is not, therefore, a case of salvage on the part of the City of Eiehmond.
The libellant'is entitled to a reasonable sum for towage and taking passengers. If the parties do not agree, a reference on that point may be taken.
No costs up to this time are allowed, and the libellant should pay the disbursements on the arrest of the vessel. The Sebastian Bach, ante, 172.