Legal Opinion
The Mary N. Bourke
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided February 27, 1905PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to enforce lien for repairs.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
This is a libel in rem, .based upon the statutes ■ of the state of Michigan, to recover the sum of $20,255, balance due for rebuilding, repairing, docking, and equipping the schooner Mary N. Bourlce, owned by George Nester and others, between May 7 and September 20, 1902. The reasonable value of such work performed and materials furnished is alleged to be $25,-255, on account of which respondents paid on August 4, 1902, the sum of $5,000. The libelants are copartners owning and operating a *896dry dock at Bay City, Mich. At West Bay City, not far distant across the Saginaw…
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- Barnard v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Peterson v. Eight Hundred & Sixty-Nine Cedar LogsDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1904
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- Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Standard Shipping Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1932