Supreme Court of the United States April 30, 1870 (The Blackwall)

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD

delivered the opinion of the court.

Salvage is claimed by the libellants, as owners of the steamtug Goliah, for services renderd by the steamtug, her master and crew, on the twenty-fourth of August, 1867, in saving the ship Blackwall and her cargo, then lying at anchor in the harbor of San Francisco.