Hener v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that salvage law’s “application enables courts to encourage open, lawful, and cooperative conduct, all in the cause of preserving property (and life).”
• relying heavily on the parties’ investments of time and money and the seriousness of the salvage operations
• explaining differing policies of and behaviors promoted by the law of finds and salvage law
• misconduct “jeop ardizes [one’s] status as salvor and the recovery to which he would otherwise be entitled”
• “salvage law assumes that the property being salved is owned by another, and thus that it has not been abandoned”
• “[A] finding that title to such property has been lost requires strong proof, such as the owner’s express declaration abandoning title.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).