Huntington v. Proceeds of the Advance
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from tlie District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. These were petitions by Collis P. Huntington and Pratt & Co. against the proceeds, respectively, of the steamships Advance, AUian-ca, and Vigilancia, to assert an alleged lien arising out of a contract wherebjf libelants guarantied payment of certain letters of credit. The district court dismissed the petition (63 Fed. 726), and the petitioners have appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
The United States & Brazil Mail Steamship Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York, had been engaged for some years prior to October, 1892, in the business of running a line of passenger and freight steam vessels between the city of New York and different ports in Brazil,, with increasingly poor pecuniary success. Mr. Collis P. Huntington was a stockholder, a director, and the vice president of the company, but without any active share in its management, except to lend it money in its times of need, which he was in the habit of doing to a…
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