Chase v. Corcoran

The evidence introduced at the trial tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff, while engaged with his *287own boats in the Mystic River, within the ebb and flow of the tide, found the defendant’s boat adrift, with holes in the bottom and the keel nearly demolished, and in danger of sinkn g or being crushed between the plaintiff’s boats and the piles of a bridge, unless the plaintiff had saved it. The plaintiff secured the boat, attached a rope to it, towed it ashore, fastened it to a post, and, after putting up notices in public places in the nearest town, and making other inquiries,…