City of Camden
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. In the matter of the claim of T. T. Tunstall, intervener, for money lent or advanced.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
It is well settled that, by the general maritime law, one who loans or advances money to the master or *848owner of a vessel, who is without funds, in a foreign port, to be used in furnishing materials, repairs, or supplies to the vessel, and which is actually used for that purpose, is entitled to a maritime lien on the vessel therefor; and that where funds are loaned in a foreign port to discharge valid existing maritime liens, and are so used, the lender may properly and equitably stand in the place of the lien-holders whose demands have been discharged with the funds…
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