Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Marsodak S. S. Co.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel in admiralty filed in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, in February, 1936, by Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company, a New York corporation, hereinafter referred to as the libelant, against the steamship Marsodak. The object of the libel was to assert a lien against the steamship for the sum of $5,153.42, for material furnished and work done on her at the order of the owner or its agents.

The Marsodak Steamship Company, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as the respondent, filed an answer denying…