Williams v. Eckert

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CON-NOR, BURKE, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ. CONNOR, Justice.

In this appeal Charles Williams challenges the propriety of the trial court’s determination that he was liable to John Ec-kert for Eckert’s loss of $16,000 net income from fishing. In response, Eckert contests a salvage award to Williams in the amount of $2,500.

I. FACTS

The controversy in this case centers around the actions of Eckert and his neph ew Williams after Eckert’s vessel, the PEN-49, dragged anchor and ran aground in Metervik Bay in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska around May 18, 1979. Both…