Baird v. The Bonnie Doon

This is alibel to recover possession. On the7th of June, 1888, the libelant, as sheriff of Camden county, N. J., by virtue of a writ of attachment, issued out of the circuit court for said county, against John Craig, at the suit of Joseph Campbell, in an action of contract, levied on and took possession of the small steam-yacht Bonnie Doon, then lying in the Delaware river, near Beach-Street wharf, in the city of Camden, as the property of the said Craig, who was then in command and acting as master thereof. A few days after the sheriff had acquired possession of the yacht in the manner just…