United States v. Carter & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding salvors entitled to award when actions “bore directly on the successful efforts” to save vessel
• “So long as the services are voluntary ..., a bystander or interloper is eligible for salvage award in proportion to the value of his contributory efforts.”
• fire aboard a ship is a “classic case of marine peril”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).