People ex rel. Granger v. Judge of the Wayne Circuit Court

Granger sued Thomas Murphy and Samuel Murphy, in a common-law action for services in fitting out a vessel and as master, and for commissions on her earnings, and for certain outlays and expenses.

Defendants pleaded in abatement the commencement and adverse decision of an action in rem against the vessel in the United States district court, and its appeal by plaintiff to the circuit court of the United States, where it was still pending. This plea having been held bad on demurrer, the court, upon an affidavit of the same facts, stayed the proceedings as to most of the claim, until the cause…