Thames Shipyard & Repair Co. v. Willametz

The plaintiff brought this aetion seeking to recover an agreed upon price for services rendered in salvaging a sailboat which had foundered on the rocks of Long Island Sound. In his answer to the complaint, the defendant filed a counterclaim for damages alleging that because the plaintiff failed in timely fashion to perform its part of the agreement, the boat suffered considerable additional damage due to bad weather. The trial court found the issues for the defendant on the complaint and for the plaintiff on the counterclaim. From that part of the judgment pertaining to the counterclaim, the…