Treworgy v. Richards

In this admiralty appeal, the only question calling for serious consideration is as to whether the award of the court below for salvage was adequate. The facts material for determination of that issue are within narrow limits.

On May 2,1923, the waters of Union river, which run through Ellsworth, Me., down into Union Bay, had been raised to an unprecedentedly high pitch by rains and by a break in a large dam, which released a heavy body of impounded water. In winter storage, under a large frame building, 170 feet long and 68 feet wide, were three yachts, the Kalmia, the Duchess, and the…