Mark v. The New Idea

RILES, District Judge.

In the matter of the proceeds of the steamboat Hew Idea and barges, heard on the intervention of Harvey Rockwood, who sues as the assignee of certain claims for maritime wages, I hold that these claims are assignable. I do not think the assignment divests the lien. In Cobb v. Howard, 3 Blatchf. 525, Judge Nelson says, “It is every day’s practice, in the admiralty, to allow suit to be brought in the name of an assignee of a chose in action.” In The Hull of a New Ship, 2 Ware, 203, Fed. Cas. No. 6,859, Judge Ware exaniined the point on principle and authority, and held…