Chance v. Certain Artifacts Found & Salvaged From the Nashville

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining \to accept the in specie award as a valid award in a salvage action\
• stating that “even though a vessel is abandoned without the hope of recovery or return, the title of the vessel remains in her owner” and “[t]he salvor of property has a right to an award or a lien against the property”
• “When personalty is found embedded in land however, title to that personalty rests with the owner of the land.”
• shipwreck determined to be abandoned where it was “sealed ... under tons of sand”
• shipwreck determined to be abandoned where it was “sealed ... under tons of sand”
• shipwreck determined to be abandoned where it was “sealed ... under tons of sand”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).