The J. R. Langdon

TAYLER, District Judge.

A statement of the facts, so far as they relate to the particular question now to be considered, may be brief!v *65made as follows: On tlie 15th day of May, 1899, a bill of complaint was filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts by Frederick H. Prince against the Ogdensburg Transit Company, in the nature of a creditors’ bill. This was consolidated with the case of Carlton and others against the same defendant. There were many creditors of the defendant, as well as a mortgage on its property, including several vessels engaged in…