215 F. 615 | S.D. Ala. | 1914
The facts of this case as they appear from the libel are substantially these: That Ollinger & Bruce owned a
Among salvage services are those of saving a stranded ship; taking aid to a distressed ship; saving a ship from fire either aboard or in dangerous proximity; removing a ship from any impending danger.
Assisting a vessel “in a situation of actual apprehension, though not of actual danger,” is salvage. The Lowther Castle (D. C.) 195 Fed. 605.
“Services rendered by vessels in moving a vessel, which was in danger of fire by communication from another vessel, although rendered in connection with the salving of such vessel, held salvage services, and entitled to compensation as such.” But “an indirect advantage derived from the rendering of á salvage service to another vessel” cannot be made the basis of an award for salvage. The Acre (D. C.) 195 Fed. 1022.
Admiralty has no jurisdiction of a claim for damages caused by vessels to a dock which, although in navigable water, is so connected with the shore that it concerns commerce on the land. C. T. & Valley R. Co. v. Cleveland S. S. Co., 208 U. S. 316, 28 Sup. Ct. 414, 52 L. Ed. 508, 13 Ann. Cas. 1215.
Moreover if the dry dock had caught fire and the libelants’ tug had rendered services in extinguishing the fire, but not without some damage,. there would have been no liability on the owner of the dry dock for salvage in this the admiralty court. The liability would be for services rendered the owner by suit in a common law -court.