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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 1,305.
    BENJAMIN v. The WATCHMAN.
    [21 Law Rep. 40.]
    District Court, S. D. New York.
    1858.
    Salvage — Purchase by Salvor.
    [Note. This case is nowhere more fully reported. The opinion, if one was written, is not now accessible.]
   ■ A party who has purchased the vessel while she was a wreck can in no case be regarded as a salvor, in .the sense of the maritime law. Otherwise the court would be called upon to decree to him a share of the property saved as compensation, and then decree the surplus to him as owner. A libel brought .in such case can only be .to obtain, by the intervention of the court, a confirmation of the sale to him and of his title, and there is no authority in law for such a proceeding.