Legal Opinion
The D. S. Newcomb
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 15, 1882PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Sur exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
Acheson, D. J.
If it be conceded that the libellant’s services were maritime, and that the libel sufficiently avers that they were rendered upon the credit of the D. S. Newcomb, the objection to this libel in rem, that they were performed at the home port of the boat, still remains. That in such case no lien exists by the general maritime law is settled. The Lottawanna, 21 Wall. 558; Mon. Nav. Co. v. Steam-tug Bob Connell, 1 Fed. Rep. 219.
Can the libel be sustained under the local statute? The steam-tug D. S. Newcomb had been sunk in the Allegheny river at the foot of Thirteenth street, in the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The LottawannaSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
3Cited by3 opinions
- The Atlantic CityCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1915
- The ConvoyDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1919
- The Paul L. BleakleyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1906