Clapp v. Young

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

This is a libel by the owner of a schooner called the Eddington against the owners of a schooner called Lion, for damage by collision. The first question is whether the libellant was owner of the Eddington. He has produced the usuai muniments of title, a bill of sale, and an enrolment in his own name. It is insisted that the sale was without consideration, and for the purpose of defeating the creditors of Chandler Clapp, the former owner. But the respondents are not his creditors and are not in a position to raise that question. If Chandler Clapp chose to give the…