The Acushla

MORTON, District Judge.

The case is an interesting one, as any controversy involving the customs of the sea is apt to be; and it has been presented by counsel familiar with such matters. The principal question is whether fishing gear .delivered to the master of a fishing vessel in January, 1919, to replace gear lost or condemned as unfit for further use, is chargeable to the vessel, she being at the time, as the seller knew, on the one-fifth lay. The facts are as follows:

The schooner Acushla was owned by the claimant. She was let to one Parsons as master on the one-fifth lay, under which the…