The Steam Dredge A.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at New Bern; Henry G. Connor, Judge. Suit in admiralty by Howard S. Roberts, the York Foundry & Machine Company, J.' K. Petty & Co. and the Earle Gear & Machine Company against the Steam Dredge A, Edmund H. Mitchell, trading-as Mitchell & Co., claimant, and others. From the decree, certain of the libelants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
On the 28th of August, 1911, a libel in rem was filed by the claimant of a lien for repairs, supplies, and other necessaries against the steam dredge A in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina. This was followed by a number of libels and intervening libels filed in the same court against the same dredge by claimants of similar liens. No answer raising issues appears by the record to have been filed to any of these libels. A so-called “claim” appears to have- been filed for the owner, Edmund H. Mitchell; but this claim simply…
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