The William F. McRae
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. This was a libel for a collision, promoted by Elizabeth McClure, who was averred to be the owner of the scow Frank Morris, the injured vessel.
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In Admiralty. This was a libel for a collision, promoted by Elizabeth McClure, who was averred to be the owner of the scow Frank Morris, the injured vessel. The case was submitted to the court informally upon the sufficiency of the following averment in the answer: “ (5) Respondent, further answering, says that on the sixth day of October, A. D. 1883, a libel was filed in this court by one George McClure, who is reputed to be the husband of the libelant herein, against the said tug William 3?. McRae, etc., for the same cause of action, as will more fully appear by an inspection of said libel;…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
That a vessel discharged from arrest upon admiralty process by the giving of a bond or stipulation for her value, or for the payment of the amount claimed in the libel, returns to her owner freed forever from the lien upon which she was arrested, and can never be seized again for the same cause of action, even by the consent of parties, is a proposition too firmly established to be open to question. The Kalamazoo, 9 Eng. Law & Eq. 557; The Wild Ranger, Brown. & Lush. 84; The Union, 4 Blatchf. 90; The White Squall, 4 Blatchf. 103; The Old Concord, 1 Brown, Adm. 270; The Josephine, 4 Cent. Law…
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