Lawrence v. Flatboat
District Court, S.D. Alabama
This was a libel in rem by Millard T. Lawrence and others against an unnamed flatboat or pile driver, of which the Southern Log-Oart & Supply Company are claimants.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
The libel is to recover a balance of wages due libelants for services on the said flatboat. The boat had erected on her a pile driver, which was used in driving piling in the construction of bulkheads on which to erect channel lights along the channel of Mobile Bay for the guidance of vessels navigating the bay. She was also provided with an engine aboard, with which to operate the pile driver. The business of the boat was to transport the material used in constructing the bulkheads from the city of Mobile to the several points in the bay along the channel where such…
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