The L. W. Eaton

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem, in admiralty, against the schooner L. W. Eaton. A question has arisen, the claimant having answered, as to whether the vessel was arrested within waters subject to the jurisdiction of the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New York, under the process issued herein. The parties have stipulated as follows as to the facts: “The schooner L. W. Eaton was attached by the marshal, under *1120the process issued in tliis cause, on tlie 1st day of April, 1S73, the said vessel being, at the time, afloat in the navigable waters…