The Columbus

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The question to be determined in this case is—Does a lien exist in favor of a material-man who has supplied a vessel in her home port at the request of her master after having been notified by the owner that the vessel has been let to the master to be run on shares, and to be manned and victualled by him, and that if supplies are furnished to her it must be exclusively on his personal credit?

The supreme court has decided in the case of The Lottawanna, 21 Wall. [88 U. S.] 585, that under the general maritime law. as received in the United States, no lien exists in favor…