The Nathan Hannan
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
The Nathan Hannan, 17 F. Cas. 1184 (1859)
1859 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73
The Nathan Hannan
Opinion of the Court
This ship being lost in this case and the materials sold for $1,682.14, and the cargo appraised at $2,872.25, making an aggregate of $4,559.-39. It is ordered, and decreed, that the libel-lants have, and recover in full compensation for their services, forty-five per cent, upon the net value of the property saved by them; the net value to be ascertained by deducting from the gross value the wharf-age, storage, labor bills in landing and storing the cargo and reshipping it, merchants’ commissions, and other charges; and upon the payment of said salvage, costs, and charges, the marshal restore said cargo to the master of said ship, for and on account of whom it may concern.
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- Full Case Name
- The NATHAN HANNAN
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- Published