The Grace Greenwood
District Court, N.D. Illinois
In admiralty. This case was submitted to the. court upon the following statement ■of facts: On the 28th day of December, A. D. 1868, the barque Grace Greenwood was arrested by monition issued out of this court at a suit prosecuted for mariners’ wages. On the 22d day of February, A. D. 1869, the barque was sold by the United States marshal, and brought the sum of seven thousand, three hundred and seventy-f[ve dollars.
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In admiralty. This case was submitted to the. court upon the following statement ■of facts: On the 28th day of December, A. D. 1868, the barque Grace Greenwood was arrested by monition issued out of this court at a suit prosecuted for mariners’ wages. On the 22d day of February, A. D. 1869, the barque was sold by the United States marshal, and brought the sum of seven thousand, three hundred and seventy-f[ve dollars. After paying admiralty liens there remained in the registry remnants and surplus. Against these remnants and surplus mortgagees filed a petition claiming the funds by virtue of…
1Opinion of the Court
DRUMMOND, District Judge.
The mortgages were made and executed in Chicago, where the mortgagors, and mortgagees resided, and were recorded in the office of the collector of customs, but nowhere else. They were all recorded, as I understand, before any of the supplies were furnished, and the controversy arising between the parties is as to the priority of these claims upon the proceeds — whether the material men should be first paid or the mortgagees.
None of these material-men have maritime liens, but as this court and other admiralty courts have decided, although they might not have maritime…
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