Woodworth v. Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a question involving the proper disposition of the surplus proceeds of the sale of the schooner Harriet Boss in the Admiralty Court of the Northern District .of Illinois. The schooner had been libelled in that court for supplies furnished, to the value of $72, and sold for about $5000. While the surplus proceeds of this sale were still in the registry, the Corn Exchange Insurance Company fled a libel against them.
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This was a question involving the proper disposition of the surplus proceeds of the sale of the schooner Harriet Boss in the Admiralty Court of the Northern District .of Illinois. The schooner had been libelled in that court for supplies furnished, to the value of $72, and sold for about $5000. While the surplus proceeds of this sale were still in the registry, the Corn Exchange Insurance Company fled a libel against them. The libellant alleged that-shortly before the schooner was seized at Chicago by the process of the District Court, a collision had occurred on Lake Ontario, between her and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Milleb
The litigation to • establish the liability of the Boss was troublesome and expensive to the Corn Exchange Company. Mr. Woodworth did not, in any manner, aid, or offer to aid in it. His interest was against the liability which the company sought to establish; for, if the Boss was declared pot liable, he received these proceeds .and remnants as mortgagee of that vessel. But, after permitting his own libel to sleep during this struggle, he attempts, When it is over, to revive that libel, and claims to share in the fruits of a victory won without his aid, and against his wishes. The District and…
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