The John Farron

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

Since the decision of this ease in the district court [Case No. 7,340], the supreme court of the United States, in the case of The Lotta-wanna, 21 Wall. [88 U. S.] 558, has declared the law in regard to some questions about which conflicting views were entertained by different judges. It must now be deemed settled, that material men furnishing repairs and supplies to a vessel, in her home port, do not thereby acquire any lien upon the vessel, by the general maritime law, as received in the United States, but that, so long as congress does not interpose to regulate the…