 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...negotiations looking to payment for the service. To defeat the claim for salvage it must be shown that a contract to pay a given sum for the services to be rendered was entered into by the parties. It is not pretended in this case that any such contract was made,... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 954 pages
...compensation. Clifford, 3., said : " Nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the service to be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious salvage claim." In The Wm. L. Garrison, USDC... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 950 pages
...but refer the matter only went in diminution of the amount of compensation. Clifford, J., said : " Nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the service to be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...will have the effect to diminish a claim for salvage compensation. On the contrary, the rule is that nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for...at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage.J * The Emulous, 1 Sumner,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1912 pages
...paid. As to such agreements, the supreme court of the United States, in The Camanche Case, said that "nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the services to _be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1462 pages
...upon a sum. It was, however, held by this court, in the case of The Curnanche, 8 Wall. 448, 477, that "nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for...at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage." îïor was there in this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1450 pages
...upon a sum. It was, however, held by this court, in the case of The Camanchr, 8 Wall. 448, 477, that "nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for...at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage." Xor was there in this... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1888 - 838 pages
...a sum. It was, however, held by this court, in the case of The Camanche, 8 "Wall. -148, 477, that " nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for...at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage." Nor was there in this... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Contracts - 1893 - 860 pages
...contracts made for salvage service.' To defeat a salvage suit on the ground of a special contract, nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the services to be rendered, or a binding agreement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will have that... | |
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On the contrary, the rule is that nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the services to be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious... 
