The Bainbridge
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
j: Ip' Admiralty. Suit by T. J. King and A. Winge, copartners doing business as King & Winge, against the gas boat Bainbridge (the Inland Navigation Company, claimant), for repairs prior to June 23, 1910, in which the Astoria Iron Works intervened. From a decree denying it a lien, intervener appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant was an intervener in a .suit in which the firm of King & Winge had libeled the gas boat Bain-bridge for balance due for work done and material furnished in repairing the .vessel at her home port in Seattle, Wash. The court below held that the libelant-had a lien on the vessel for the balance due, basing that conclusion upon the owner’s remark to the libelant:
“You need not be afraid about the money. The boat is good for the work.”
*623The intervener, at the request of the owners, furnished gas engines and other fixtures, which were installed in the boat, of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Alaska & P. S. S. Co. v. C. W. Chamberlain & Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1902
3Cited by1 opinion
- The AlaskanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1915