The Ann C. Pratt
United States Circuit Court
[In admiralty. Libel on bottomry bond by Nehemiah Carrington against the brig Ann C. Pratt, Leonard B. Pratt, claimant. Decree for libellant for his implied lieu, the bond being void for fraud. (Not reported.) Claimant appeals. Reversed, and libel dismissed, with costs. The libellant then appealed to the supreme court, where the circuit court decree was affirmed, sub nom. Carrington v. The Ann C. Pratt, 18 How.
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[In admiralty. Libel on bottomry bond by Nehemiah Carrington against the brig Ann C. Pratt, Leonard B. Pratt, claimant. Decree for libellant for his implied lieu, the bond being void for fraud. (Not reported.) Claimant appeals. Reversed, and libel dismissed, with costs. The libellant then appealed to the supreme court, where the circuit court decree was affirmed, sub nom. Carrington v. The Ann C. Pratt, 18 How. (59 U. S.) 63.] This was an appeal from a decree of the district court in a cause of bottomry. The brig Ann C. Pratt sailed from Frankfort, in the state of Maine, Nov. 7, 1S50,…
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIS, Circuit Justice.
There is a preliminary question in this case, which must be first disposed of. On the return of the process, in the court below, Leonard B. Pratt appeared and claimed the brig as sole owner. In that capacity, he was admitted by the court, contested the action upon answer and proof, appealed from the decree, and entered his appeal in this court. After the appeal had been claimed, an abandonment, which he had previously made of the brig to the company that had underwritten a policy of insurance on her, was accepted by the underwriters, who applied to the court, by…
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