Jenkins v. Rancocas Const. Co.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In the court below Charles E. Smith and William Jenkins filed libels alleging they had maritime liens against five pile drivers formerly owned by the Armstrong & Latta Company, their employer, but now owned by the purchasers thereof at a sheriff’s sale of that firm’s property. A commissioner, who took the testimony, and the court found the claimants had no lien and discharged the libels. Thereupon they appealed.

The facts of the ease and law applicable as stated by the trial court are quoted below, we adding thereto that Armstrong & Latta were a constructing firm and…