Walker v. Blackwell
New York Supreme Court
Error from the Albany mayor’s court. Blackwell and McFarlan caused the sloop Rochester to be attached under the act authorizing the arrest of ships or vessels for debts contracted, &c.
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Error from the Albany mayor’s court. Blackwell and McFarlan caused the sloop Rochester to be attached under the act authorizing the arrest of ships or vessels for debts contracted, &c. (1 R. L. 130 and the act amending the same, Statutes 4th vol. b. 49,) and exhibited their declaration in the mayor’s court of Albany, setting forth, that at the request of W. A., the captain or commander of the sloop or vessel called the Rochester, of 144 tons burthen, the plaintiffs furnished to the sloop or vessel one chain cable, one anchor, one house box and deck roller, of the value of $174; averring that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The object of the legislature, in the first act on this subject, (1 R. L. 130,) was, to make vessels liable for certain [demands, by allowing a remedy in the nature of admiralty proceedings. The remedy was confined, however, to cases of vessels owned by non-residents; and until the passage of the amendatory act of 1817, (Statutes, vol. 4, b. 49,) a vessel owned by a resident could not be proceeded against in this manner; but the creditor, who had furnished the supplies or other necessaries, was confined to his personal action to obtain satisfaction of his demand. By that act, the…
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