CUDWORTH v. THE ST. CUTHBERT

No. 7760.

146 F.Supp. 857 (1957)

Perrin L. CUDWORTH et al., Libellants, v. Panamanian Motorship THE ST. CUTHBERT, etc., Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

January 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jett, Sykes & Howell, Norfolk, Va., Roy L. Sykes, Norfolk, Va., for libellants.

Baird, White & Lanning, Norfolk, Va., Guilford D. Ware, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.


HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This is an action in admiralty by the master and members of the crew of a tug against the Panamanian motorship St. Cuthbert, in rem, and its owner, in personam, asserting salvage claims alleged to have been occasioned by a fire at the dock of the West India Fruit and Steamship Company, Norfolk, Virginia, where the vessel was moored. Libellants assert that, by reason of their prompt action, the vessel and its valuable cargo of bananas were...

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