1 F. Cas. 464
U.S. District Court
Decided March 15, 1798
U.S. District Court · decided 1798-03-15
[In admiralty. Libel for compensation for services. Decree for libelants.] From the pleadings and evidence it appeared that the Canada, [John] Sewall, master, on a voyage from Jamaica to England, having lost her rudder, and sprung her foremast in a storm, was obliged to bear away for the first port. She came to anchor off the bar of Charleston; when the captain came ashore for assistance, and returned with a new rudder, six fresh hands, and a pilot.
Decided 1798-03-15
¶1March, 1798.
¶2Salvage Service — What Constitutes — Compensation.
¶3[2. Cited in The Williams,. Case No. 17,710, as authority for remedy in rem for services not upon or in contract with the ship, nor upon which the salvation of the vessel depended.]
¶4The judge decreed four hundred, and ordered the defendant to pay costs of suit.