Carpenter v. Ritscher
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was ¡i libel by Peter O. Ritscher and others against the yacht Grade May (Philip Carpenter, claimant), to recover the sum of $100.57, with interest and costs, for supplies furnished on board said yacht. The district court made a decree against the yacht, and the claimant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
Prior to July, 1890, George M. Rollins, then of New York City, owned the Grade May, a pleasure yacht of about 30 feet in length and of about 5 tons burden. He was engaged in a number of electrical enterprises, and in the formation of car trusts, but be had no property, and was generally “short of ready money.” He owed the claimant, who was his law*284yer, and whom lie frequently consulted, and with whose family he and his family were on intimate terms, quite a large bill, and in July, 1890, offered to let him (Mr. Carpenter) hare the yacht in payment of the bill up to that…
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