McCarthy v. Eggers

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is an action in personam to recover of the defendants the value of certain repairs done by the li-bellant to the bark D. H. Bills, in the port of New York.

The libel avers that “at all times when these said repairs were made and the said labor and materials were furnished by the libellant, the said respondents were the owners of said bark.” The defendants answer separately.

The defendant Eggers in her answer does not deny the averment of the libel in regard to her ownership of the bark, but sets up by way of defence that prior to the doing of these repairs she had…