Legal Opinion

The Owego

District Court, W.D. Washington

Decided August 1, 1923No. 7496Published

In Admiralty. Ribel by the Johnson Iron Works, Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company and others against the Steamship Owego, ■wherein J. 'M. Rutherford and others intervened. Decree awarding wages to seamen.

1Opinion of the Court

NETERER, District Judge.

Consolidated under the above title are a number of original libels and intervening libels in rem against the steamship Owego by various maritime lien claimants for seamen’s wages, stevedore’s compensation, claims for repairs, compensation for materials furnished, and it also appears that prior to the institution of the causes herein a mortgage lien existed to secure unpaid purchase price of the ship. The vessel has been sold, and the proceeds paid into the registry of the court. The testimony has been taken covering the seamen’s wages and amounts unpaid for services…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. The John G. StevensSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. Sheppard and Others v. Taylor and OthersSupreme Court of the United States · 1831
  3. Hoof v. Pacific American FisheriesDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1922
  4. The EnterpriseU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1855
  5. Cooper v. F. H. StanwoodCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1892

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