The Toledo
District Court, E.D. Michigan
H O-g,02 ÍH £ £ ^ J?o Sa .5 c co -+2 ioq - v Off— £ spond in damages as claimed in the cross-libel, applies as well to actions in rem as to those in personam. Motion to vacate an order requiring libel-lant to give security to answer the cross-libel, and for stay of proceedings.
1Opinion of the Court
LONGYEAR, District Judge.
Rule S3, under which the question presented arises, reads as follows: “Whenever a cross-libel is filed upon any counter-claim arising out of the same cause of action for which the original libel was filed, the respondents in the cross-libel shall give security, in the usual amount and form, to respond in damages as claimed in the said cross-libel, unless the court, on cause shown, shall otherwise direct: and all proceedings upon the original libel shall be stayed until such security shall be given.” Timothy Crowley, master of the scow Snow Bird, filed his libel in rem…
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