The Helen Brown
District Court, D. Massachusetts
The libelants claimed a lien under Pub. St. Mass. c. 192, §§ 14, 15, The claimants, the mortgagees, defenaod on the ground that the provisions of the act had not been complied with. It was admitted that no claim had been filed until more than four days after a trip to Lynn; but it was asserted that a trip to Lynn and return, completed on the same day, was not a departure from the port, within the meaning of the act.
1Opinion of the CourtNelson, J.
This is a libel by material-men to enforce a lien lor labor and materials furnished in repairing the steam-tug Helen Brown, at Boston, her home port. The lien is claimed under a statute of the state which gives a lien for labor performed and materials furnished in the repairs oí a domestic vessel. Pub. St. e. 192, § 14. Section 15 provides that “such lien shall be dissolved unless the person claiming the same files, within four days from the time when the vessel departs from the port at which she was when the debt was contracted, in the office of the clerk of the city or town within which the…
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