Briggs v. Light-Boat Upper Cedar Point
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petitions for the enforcement of liens upon three vessels. After the former decision in one of these cases, reported in 7 Allen, 287, one of the cases was referred to an assessor, and the others to an auditor, upon whose reports judgments were entered in the superior court for the amounts found to be due to the petitioners; and the United States, appearing as claimants, appealed to this court. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The statutes of Massachusetts provide that any person to whom money is due for labor and materials furnished in the construction of a vessel in this commonwealth shall have a lien upon her, which shall be preferred to all other liens except mariners’ wages, and shall continue until the debt is satisfied, unless dissolved by his failure to file in the office of the city or town clerk, within four days from the departure of the vessel from the port at which she was when the debt was contracted, a certificate, under oath, of his account, of the name of the person with whom the contract was made,…
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