United States Ninth Circuit

In apportioning a salvage award, the district court should have considered whether the owner of the salving vessel was entitled to part of the award set as reasonable salvage. Mere fact that owner had interest in the ship in distress cannot be the basis for denying the owner a share in the award.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2003
• Decided 07/30/2003
• Published 07/30/2003

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge., Before LAY,GOODWIN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Harold F. Vhugen and Robert M. Kraft, Levinson Friedman P.S., Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Terence S. Cox, Cox, Wootton, Griffin Hansen & Poulos, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants.