Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 7.djvu/376

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364 FEDERAL REPORTER. �garding the words "credits and effects" in that rule as used in contradistinction to "goods and chattels, " it seems to me the natural object of the proceeding by garnishment was to ena- ble the libellant to reaoh the same property, viz., goods and chattels, if held by a third person not an agent of the owner, as well as any debts owing by such person to the owner. I regard the word "effects" as practically equivalent to "goods," and including personal property, tangible as well as intan- gible. �The motion to quash must therefore be denied. ���The Mabt E. Lokg.* �[District Cimrt,'B.'li. Pennsytmnia. May 10, 1881.) �Ij Sauvage — TowiNG Vbssel off ,qf Phoal-^ What Co^ensation �AWAKDBD. „ ; �'■' "'A sfciiooner vsHueiJ a't 16,000,^1111 & cargo and fretght valueii'at �. ii|20,O00, win agTound upon a shoal in Delaware bay, and set'a sigaal �of distress. A tug valued at |18,000, to.-iying , another vessel up;t^ie �bay, saw the signal, anchored her tow, and went to the relief, of the �eehobnei, which ahe siicceededih pulliagoff^the shoal and'takihg to �; Philadelphia. ' There was ccinflicting testitnony as to the ctedititfa �, pf, thet wind; and s^a,: wjiether the^ schooner was in aerious dftftger, and �wliether the tug ran any risk in relieving hcr. Other relicf was near, �and arrived sobri after the schooner was floated. In a libel by the tug �for salvage, hdd, that ^1,060 waa, under all the circumstahces, a just �compensation. ■ [ �In Admiralty, �Libel by the owners of the steam-tng Juno against the �schooner Mary E. Long, her cargo, and freigb,t,.to recover �salvage. The testimony was as follows : �About 3 o'clack a. m. on February 21, 1880, the schooner, while sall- ing up the Delaware bay, grounded on a long and narrow shoal called the Brandywine shoal. For the purpose of working across the shoal she kept her sails set until 5 o'clock a. M., when they were hauled down. About 7 o'clock a. m. the schooner set a signal of distress, and about 8;30 o'clock she again set her sails. About 9 o'clock the tug Juno, pro- �*Reported by Frank P. Fricliard, Esq , of the Pbiladelphia bar. ��� �