Thurber v. The Fannie

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is a cause of possession. The libel avers that in April, 1875, the libellant, James E. Thurber, *1180being then in the peaceful possession of the sloop Fannie as the sole owner thereof, one Alonzo E. Smith, accompanied by others, armed with pistols, on the navigable waters of .the United States, and within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, forcibly and wrongfully took said vessel from the libellant, and now wrongfully detains the same by the defendant, Alfred Smith, acting under his directions. Process having been issued, citing the said…