Case No. 117.

The AJAX.

[1 Adm. Rec. 431.]

Superior Court, S. D. Florida.

Dec. 7, 1836.

SALVAGE—AWARD—PARTIALLY DAMAGED CARGO.

[This was a libel for salvage by Richard Roberts and others against the cargo and materials saved from the ship Ajax, (Charles A. Hiem, claimant.) The vessel was lost on Carrysfort Reef, off the coast of Florida. Part of the cargo was saved dry and uninjured. and part in a wet and damaged condition. The decree allows the salvors “thirty-five per centum of the net amount arising from such portions of said cargo as were saved dry and uninjured, and fifty per centum upon the net amount of

sales arising from that portion of said cargo which was taken from said ship in a wet, damaged, and perishing condition, and also fifty per centum upon the net amount of sales of the materials saved from said ship; to be paid to said salvors according to their respective interests therein.”]

[Cited in Baker v. The Slobodna, 35 Fed. Rep. 542; The John and Albert, Case No. 7,333.]

[Nowhere reported; opinion not now accessible.]

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