Aiken v. Smith

PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, Charles Smith, libeled the steamboat Whisper on account of injuries sustained and for wages. The appellants, Aiken and others, as claimants and owners of the steamboat Whisper, bonded the steamboat, and contested the libel. sOn the hearing the district court rendered judgment against the steamboat Whisper, and over against the claimants and their sureties on the release bond, in the sum $506.75. The appellants appealed the case to this court, where, on hearing, the following decree was entered.:

“On consideration whereof it is now here ordered, adjudged, and…