Walters v. Fulton

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appellee filed two libels in rem in the Southern Division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern .District of California against two barges, the property of the appellant, to recover for labor and materials furnished in repairing each. The barges were seized while in the Northern Division of said district. Decree by default was rendered in each case. As the records in the two cases are identical, it will be necessary on the appeals to discuss in but one of them the points involved in both.

A motion is made to dismiss the appeal on the ground that…