United States v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

In November, 1920, the steamship Ascutney, owned by the United States and chartered to the Ascutney Steamship Company, came into the port of Baltimore, in ballast, consigned to Wilbur F. Spice, doing business as Wilbur F. Spice & Co., as agent. The agent paid the charges against the ship for night engineer, quarantine fumigation, launch hire, customs entry, tonnage tax, inward pilotage, and other small items, aggregating $393.34.

' The District Court held that these advances would have constituted liens against a ship privately owned, and that, therefore, the United…