Fielder v. Bay Const. Co.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The dredge Florida, owned by the Peninsular Dredging Company, was libeled by appellants for materials, repairs and supplies. The Bay Con-. struetion Company, appellee, intervened, and alleged that it had advanced to the dredging company the sum of $6,500, to be used in paying the wages of the dredge’s crew, and that such sum was actually so used. Appellants, answering appellee’s libel, admitted that certain advances to the dredging company had been made, but denied that they amounted to as much as was claimed by ap-pellee; and averred that such advances, whatever they…