The Madgie
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. On petition by sureties on release-bond for relief. On June 12,1886, a libel was filed by Alexander Francis against the schooner Madgie for $70.50 seaman’s wages, and on the same day Charles Zueca intervened as claimant of the vessel, filing the usual stipulation “for all costs and expenses” that might be awarded by final decree in the suit in a penalty of $250, with John Marques as surety, Marques duly justifying in that amount before the clerk.
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In Admiralty. On petition by sureties on release-bond for relief. On June 12,1886, a libel was filed by Alexander Francis against the schooner Madgie for $70.50 seaman’s wages, and on the same day Charles Zueca intervened as claimant of the vessel, filing the usual stipulation “for all costs and expenses” that might be awarded by final decree in the suit in a penalty of $250, with John Marques as surety, Marques duly justifying in that amount before the clerk. On June 15, 1886, Zueca gave a release bond for the vessel in the penalty of $150, with Giovanni Ivulich and Joseph Cady, the…
1Opinion of the CourtToulmin, J.
This is an apidioation by sureties on a release-bond, given under section 941 of the Revised Statutes for the release of the schooner Madgie, for the reopening of a decree rendered upon the bond by my predecessor, Hon. John Bruce, at the last term of this court, under which they have been compelled to pay more than the amount of the penalty of their obligation, and seeking also the new and affirmative relief of subrogation.
During the trial term a decree may be reopened on motion, and it is no longer a question that a decree can be reopened at a subsequent term in a proper case. Owing to the…
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