Legal Opinion

The Lida Fowler

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided February 7, 1902No. 41Published

In Admiralty. Suit in rem to enforce a lien for a statutory penalty.

1Opinion of the Court

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The facts in this case, which are undisputed, may be thus stated, substantially in the words of libel-ant’s counsel:

This is a proceeding in rem by the Society for the Relief of Distressed and Decayed Pilots, Their Widows and Children, incorporated under the Pennsylvania statute of September 29, 1789, against *606the schooner Lida Fowler, for the sum of $48, with interest, a sum equal to the outward pilotage of the schooner from the port of Philadelphia. On or about March 12, 1901, the Lida Fowler, a registered American vessel of more than 100 tons burden, drawing…

2Cases cited5 opinions

The J. E. RumbellSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
Ex Parte McNielSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
The CorsairSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
The Glendale v. EvichCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1897
Collins v. Society for Relief of Distressed & Decayed PilotsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873