Taylor v. The Commonwealth
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of Missouri.) This was an appeal from a decree of the district court upon a libel in rem. [The libel was filed by Daniel G. Taylor, administrator, to recover for repairs made on the steamboat Commonwealth.) The facts appear in the report of the case when before the district court. [Case No. 13,788.)
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Circuit Justice.
The owner of the steamboat Commonwealth is a resident of St. Louis; the repairs therefore were done in what, in admiralty, is technically known as the “home port” of the vessel, and our supreme courts have decided for forty or fifty years that no admiralty lien exists by reason of supplies and repairs furnished in the home port of the vessel. There is no decision of the supreme court of the United States reversing or changing that doctrine, but the sentiments of the profession of the country — that part of the profession which devotes itself to the admiralty practice —…
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