The Alida
District Court, S.D. New York
[In admiralty.] This was libel In rem, by James O. Haight against the steamboat Alida, to recover for repairs made upon that boat. [Libel dismissed.] The facts out of which this action arose were as follows: During the navigation season of 1847, the steamboat Alida, being then wholly owned in this state, was employed in running between New York ■ and Albany, making regular passenger trips •daily, Sundays excepted.
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[In admiralty.] This was libel In rem, by James O. Haight against the steamboat Alida, to recover for repairs made upon that boat. [Libel dismissed.] The facts out of which this action arose were as follows: During the navigation season of 1847, the steamboat Alida, being then wholly owned in this state, was employed in running between New York ■ and Albany, making regular passenger trips •daily, Sundays excepted. Tbe libellant was a.blacksmith, residing at Albany, and he solicited the engineer of the boat to employ him in doing such jobs of work as should be required in the line of…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
The present action was commenced within twelve days after the libellant ceased working on the boat; but if each job created a debt by itself due and payable when such job was completed, all the items, excepting the last one, $13.43, had been due more than twelve days when the vessel was arrested, and more than that period would have elapsed after the work was finished, and after a departure of the vessel from the port of Albany to the port of New York. To sustain the action upon the facts shown, the libellant must maintain one or two propositions: that his employment was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Buddington v. StewartSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1841
- Denison v. Schooner AppeloniaNew York Supreme Court · 1822