Robinson v. Godfrey
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne County Court. The defendants in error, in August, 1849, under the boat and vessel law of 1846, attached the steamer Globe, on a claim for materials furnished.
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Certiorari to Wayne County Court. The defendants in error, in August, 1849, under the boat and vessel law of 1846, attached the steamer Globe, on a claim for materials furnished. The plaintiffs in error paid a portion of the demand, executed a bond for the balance, and the boat was released, with an agreement on the part of the defendants in. error, that they would not attach or molest the boat for the balance of their claim, secured by the bond, until the latter part of September following. Before that time, however, the defendants again attached the boat for the residue of their demand, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Douglass, J.
On the 23d day of July, 1848, Atkinson & Godfrey, the plaintiffs below, having a claim for work and labor done, and materials furnished in building the steamer Globe, which was a specific lien upon the boat, enforceable at any time by complaint and attachment under the boat and vessel law, (R. S., 1846, Ch. 22,) for a valuable consideration, agreed with Robinson, the master and owner of the boat, that they would not proceed to enforce such lien until the end of September then *409next. But on the 18th of August of that year, they made complaint and sued out attachment,…
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