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District Court, D. Maine

Decided July 27, 1840No. Case No. 4,434PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WARE, District Judge.'

This is a case of. salvage of no extraordinary merit, if the time employed, and the labor and risk, incurred in the service be alone taken into con- ■ sideration. It is not pretended that, in saving the property, the salvors were occupied more than four or five hours, nor that the service was attended with any peculiar hazard. But there are other circumstances in the case, which will incline the court to look upon it with a more favorable eye. It was connected with the saving of several lives ■ which, but for the timely aid of these salvors . must inevitably have been…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McLaughlin v. WaiteCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1830

3Cited by9 opinions

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