United States v. Jardine

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the libel of the gas screw Cacoethes, a public vessel of the United States. It is from a decree establishing a maritime lien for $2,391.38 and condemning the vessel for its payment. When seized under the writ of attachment, the Cacoethes was in the actual physical possession of the United States, being employed as a coast guard .vessel in the customs service.

The libel' alleged that while the vessel was in the port of Atlantic City, N. J., under libel proceedings in a cause of forfeiture brought by the United States in the District Court of the…