Legal Opinion
Atlantic Transportation Co. v. Alexander Shipping Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 20, 1927PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This suit comes before us on appeal from final decree entered on findings of fact made by the trial judge. These facts must be accepted as final, since the evidence is not reported.
The underlying question is whether the title of the plaintiff to a vessel enrolled and licensed and thus documented under the laws of the United States (ship mortgage act, June 5, 1920, c. 250, § 30, subsection B, 41 U. S. Sts. at Large, 1000) is subject to either of two unrecorded mortgages, each running to the defendant, for convenience called respectively the mortgage of November 17, 1925, and the mortgage of…
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