Roach v. Chapman
Supreme Court of the United States
This was au appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, sitting in admiralty. The steamer Capitol was libelled in the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, by Roach & Long, residing at Louisville, in Kentucky.
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This was au appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, sitting in admiralty. The steamer Capitol was libelled in the District Court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, by Roach & Long, residing at Louisville, in Kentucky. The libel was filed under the general admiralty law and the law of the State of Kentucky for $2,347.48, part of the price of the engine and boilers of the steamer Capitol, furnished at Louisville. The District Court sustained the claim, but the Circuit Court reversed the decree, and dismissed the libel…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The libellants claim to have a lien on the steamboat Capitol, for a balance due them for machinery furnished in her construction. The boat was built at Louisville, Kentucky, and the libellants furnished the boilers and engines. Payments were made as the work progressed, and bills of exchange taken for. the balance due after the vessel was completed. These were not paid. The boat left the port and the State, and was afterwards sold, and became the property of the claimants.
Among'other things, the claimants pleaded to the juris iliction of the court. This plea was sustained by the Circuit…
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