Steamboat Dictator v. Heath
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 82, to October and November Term 1867. This proceeding was an attachment by John Heath against the Steamboat Dictator and William B. Donaldson and others, master and owners.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county: No. 82, to October and November Term 1867. This proceeding was an attachment by John Heath against the Steamboat Dictator and William B. Donaldson and others, master and owners. The libel was filed September 16th 1865. The plaintiff gave in evidence an agreement made September 8d 1864 between Heath and Donaldson, by which Heath agreed “ to build, finish and complete (furnishing all the 'materials for the same), a steamboat cabin upon a hull 250 feet keel, to be delivered at the Pittsburg wharf, by said Donaldson, * * * as the cabin of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
The case of Walker v. Anshutz, 6 W. & S. 519, does not apply to this case. That was a contract to build and sell to the defendant a steamboat for a certain sum. It was held that the Lien Law of June 1836, relating to vessels, did not apply to a builder of a vessel under a contract to build and deliver for a fixed price.
This was a proceeding under the Act of 20th April 1858, for work and materials furnished on a contract to build and finish a cabin on the steamboat “ Dictator,” for the defendant. That act allows a lien…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walker v. AnshutzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843
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