Jones v. Horton & Horton, Inc.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a shipbuilder and repairer, libeled the barge Oriole to enforce maritime liens, one for $188.33, for storing, preserving and protecting her, and one for $3794.98 for necessary repairs on her, and a non-maritime chattel mortgage for $551.

Appellee intervened to foreclose against the barge a non-maritime chattel mortgage for $7760.78, and to contest as to its mortgage, both the existence and the priority of appellant’s claimed lien for repairs.

Its existence was contested on the ground (1) that made in the barge’s home port, the making of the repairs raised no…