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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The following is the opinion of the District Court: HOLT, District Judge. These suits are brought to recover damages for a breach of an alleged contract for the transportation of passengers. In June, 1904, the owners of the steamship Pennsylvania chartered her to the Nautical Preparatory School for one year from June 1, 1904, for $3,000 a month.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The following is the opinion of the District Court: HOLT, District Judge. These suits are brought to recover damages for a breach of an alleged contract for the transportation of passengers. In June, 1904, the owners of the steamship Pennsylvania chartered her to the Nautical Preparatory School for one year from June 1, 1904, for $3,000 a month. The Nautical Preparatory School was a corporation organized to conduct a boys’ school on shipboard. The general scheme was to have a school on a ship, in which…
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The libelants, who brought this action to enforce a lien against the steamship, were defeated in the court below, and this appeal presents the question whether by their contract with the charterer of the steamship Pennsylvania, and the charterer’s breach of the contract, they acquired a lien against the vessel enforceable in admiralty. It is conceded for the appellant that, if the contract was maritime in its nature, the libelants acquired a maritime lien by the charterer’s breach, and the real inquiry therefore is whether the contract was in such sense .maritime as to…
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