Brooks v. Steamer Adirondack

Choate, D. J.

This is a libel brought by the master of the steamer Plainmeller to recover against the steamer Adirondack the sum of £é,000 sterling, upon an express agreement in writing made by the master of the latter steamer to pay that sum for a salvage service. The defence is that the amount agreed upon is exorbitant and unreasonable; that the contract was entered into improvidently, and under circumstances of distress which render it invalid as a contract. And the claimants, admitting that the service rendered was a salvage service, offer to pay $7,500, of which they have made a tender,…