The Glide
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. This was á petition to the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, under section 17 of chapter 192 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts (the material provisions of which are copied in the margin1) by the Atlantic Works, a corporation established by the laws of that State and having its usual place of business at Boston in that county, to enforce a lien upon the tugboat Glide, whose home…
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. This was á petition to the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, under section 17 of chapter 192 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts (the material provisions of which are copied in the margin1) by the Atlantic Works, a corporation established by the laws of that State and having its usual place of business at Boston in that county, to enforce a lien upon the tugboat Glide, whose home port was Boston, for labor performed and materials furnished in repairing her at that port, under a contract between…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The question in this case is whether the lien given by a statute óf Massachusetts for repairs made upon a vessel in her home port, under a contract with her owners or their agent, may be enforced against her by petition in a court of the State, as provided in that statute, or can be enforced only in an admiralty court of the United States. The diverse inferences drawn from the previous judgments of this court, in the careful opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and of the dissenting judges in the case at bar, have induced us to state with some fulness the reasons and…
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