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COLBY v. TODD PACKING CO.

No. 5885-A.

77 F.Supp. 956 (1948)

COLBY et al. v. TODD PACKING CO.

District Court, Alaska, First Div., Juneau

June 1, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. McLean, of Juneau, Alaska, for libellants.

R. E. Robertson, of Robertson & Monagle, all of Juneau, Alaska, for respondents.

FOLTA, District Judge.

Libellants seek to recover salvage for rescuing five fish trap frames found adrift in the navigable channel of Peril Straits, Alaska, on March, 1948, under conditions constituting a marine peril. Respondent has excepted to the libel on the grounds that a fish trap is not a subject of salvage because it is neither vessel nor cargo within the doctrine of Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock Company, 119 U.S. 625, 7 S.Ct. 336...

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