The John G. Stevens
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE- CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. In a pending appeal in admiralty by Edward H. Loud and others, owners of the schooner C. R. Flint, from a decree of'' the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York in favor of Frederick H. Gladwish and others, coal merchants under the name Gladwish, Moquin & Company, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. certified to this court a question of the priority of…
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE- CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. In a pending appeal in admiralty by Edward H. Loud and others, owners of the schooner C. R. Flint, from a decree of'' the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York in favor of Frederick H. Gladwish and others, coal merchants under the name Gladwish, Moquin & Company, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. certified to this court a question of the priority of maritime lines on the steamtug John G. Stevens, arising, as the certifi- - cate stated, upon the following facts: . “The…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Gray,
after stating the case,- delivered the opinion of the court.
The question presented by this record' is whether a lien upon a tug, for damages to her tow by negligent towage bringing the tow into collision with a third vessel, is to be preferred, in admiralty, to a statutory lien for supplies furnished to the tug in her home port before the collision.
This question m#y be ponveniently divided, in-its consideration by the court, as it was in the arguments at the bar, into two parts: First. Is a claim in tort for damages by a collision entitled to priority over a claim in contract…
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