Veltman v. . Thompson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the superior court of the city of New-York. The steamboat “Alida,” owned by William R. McCulloch, was run as a passenger boat on the Hudson river, leaving New-York for Albany on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from April to October, 1847; and this was an action on an attachment bond executed by the defendants on the discharge of the Alida from a seizure under an attachment which had been issued to the sheriff of New-York, pursuant to the provisions of the…
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Appeal from the superior court of the city of New-York. The steamboat “Alida,” owned by William R. McCulloch, was run as a passenger boat on the Hudson river, leaving New-York for Albany on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from April to October, 1847; and this was an action on an attachment bond executed by the defendants on the discharge of the Alida from a seizure under an attachment which had been issued to the sheriff of New-York, pursuant to the provisions of the statute (2 R. S. 493) in relation to “ demands against ships and vessels.” It was proved that the attachment was issued on the…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The statute under which these proceedings were instituted provides, that “ whenever a debt, amounting to fifty dollars or upwards, shall be contracted”- in the manner therein specified, “ such debt shall be a lien,” &c. In this case it becomes an important matter to determine when the debt was contracted, within the meaning of the statute. The agreement was made about the 15th of April, and in one sense the debt was contracted at that time; but it is manifest that the statute has relation to a subsisting debt for supplies, materials or labor, furnished vessels, and not to the initiatory…
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