Chandler v. The Willamette Valley
District Court, N.D. California
The steamship Willamette Valley, formerly owned by the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company, having been sold to satisfy various maritime liens proved against her, the receiver of the company petitioned the court for the surplus proceeds. Counter petitions were also filed hy several creditors of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company.
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The steamship Willamette Valley, formerly owned by the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company, having been sold to satisfy various maritime liens proved against her, the receiver of the company petitioned the court for the surplus proceeds. Counter petitions were also filed hy several creditors of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company. This corporation was insolvent, and, by virtue of a certain action to foreclose a mortgage held against it by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, instituted in the circuit court of the state of Oregon, in and for Benton county, all of its property, including the…
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
The steamship Willamette Yalley was seized under process issuing from this court at the suit of the above-named libelant, to enforce a maritime lien for supplies far-; nished the vessel. Previous thereto she had been arrested upon the libel filed by one Patrick Gleeson, seeking to recover damages incurred while a passenger on hoard of said steamship, but had been released upon a bond given to the United States marshal under the provision of section 941 of the Revised Statutes. Other libels in rem were also thereafter filed against the vessel to satisfy various maritime…
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