Scudder v. Calais Steamboat Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
This was a bill in equity, brought by the complainant [Charles Scudder] as adminis'trator of the estate of John Van Pelt, formerly of San Francisco, in the state of California, deceased, to compel the corporation respondents to convey to him, as such administrator, all such title as they might have acquired, or claimed to have acquired, in thirteen-twentieth parts of a certain steamboat called the Adelaide, and to account to him for the same proportion of the net profits of…
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This was a bill in equity, brought by the complainant [Charles Scudder] as adminis'trator of the estate of John Van Pelt, formerly of San Francisco, in the state of California, deceased, to compel the corporation respondents to convey to him, as such administrator, all such title as they might have acquired, or claimed to have acquired, in thirteen-twentieth parts of a certain steamboat called the Adelaide, and to account to him for the same proportion of the net profits of the steamer during all the time she had been in their employ. John Van Pelt died in San Francisco on the 29th of…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Most of the facts respecting the title of the complainant as alleged in the bill of complaint are substantially and satisfactorily established by the evidence. Thirteen-twentieth parts of the steamer were built 'from moneys furnished by the decedent or procured irons credits provided by him in his lifetime, and were adjusted and paid by his administrators as legal debts against his estate. Full proof is exhibited that the draft of the steamer was prepared by Vanderbilt as the agent of the decedent, and as such he went to New York to make the contracts for the…
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