The Sandringham’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 11 district ·

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1. ““Although * * * this amount lies within the discretion of the” court, yet a judge “is not at liberty to render an arbitrary judgment at his own individual discretion or caprice, * * * hut must be governed * * * by the teachings of precedents, and * * * principles of the law of salvage.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Brina P. Pendleton · The Edilio

2. ““There is some contradiction in the evidence as to whether or not the bed on which the ship lay after she was beached was a quiolcsand,: Admiral Smyth, in his Dictionary of Nautical Terms, defines this to be ‘a fine-grained, loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats from her bottom.’ It is immaterial what name we apply to the sand off Cape Henry. The fact is that there, and all along the coast southward for several hundred miles, the-sand is a fine, movable substance, which, when a heavy body is resting upon it, retreats from under it by the action of the currents of the ocean which there constantly prevail, leaving a bed into which the body sinks deeper and deeper the longer it remains in the position. There is no possibility of any substance which, in specific gravity, is too heavy to float upon the surface of the water being lifted out of its bed in this sand and floated upon the shore. All the vessels that are beached upon the sands of this long coast invariably continue to sink, deeper and deeper, until they disappear from sight under the sea into the sand. “The fate of the United States steamship Huron, wrecked off Kitty Hawk, November 27, 1876, was a notable historical exemplification of this characteristic of the sands of this part of the coast.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Craster Hall

3. ““In estimating the degree of danger, regard should be had to the damage sustainéd by the vessel itself, the nature of the locality from which she was rescued, the season of the year when the services were rendered, and, if the weather at the time was not tempestuous, the probability of its becoming so, and the ignorance or knowledge, as the case may be, of the master or other person on board the vessel.” The Sandringham, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Craster Hall