Court Opinion

ID: 3649015
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:04:15.853587+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:22.328802
License: Public Domain

Trover. The jury brought in the following special verdict, viz.:
"The jury sworn, find the defendant guilty, and assess the plaintiff's damage to £ 4 and 6d. costs: subject to the opinion of the Court, on the following case. The plaintiff owned a boat, which drifted down the *Page 38 
river, and was taken up by the defendant, who claimed salvage, and accordingly refused to restore it until that was paid."
gave judgment for the defendant.
NOTE. — See Winslow v. Walker, 2 N.C. 192, which decides that the right to salvage in such cases is only to be enforced by detention of the property, and cannot be transferred to a purchaser of the property.
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