Lago Oil & Transport Co. v. United States

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

The United States, on its cross-appeal, contends that the trial judge erred in awarding anything to Lago. We cannot agree. Our previous opinion and the evidence amply justified the judge in making an award.

Lago, on its appeal, contends that the award should have approximated the value of its lost tug plus large additional compensation. We think such a decree would have ignored what we said on the previous appeal.

We think, however, that $12,500 was inadequate. Although we did not explicitly reject the judge’s finding that the tug’s captain had taken an unnecessary risk, we…