The Francis J. O'Hara, Jr.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In,Admiralty. Proceeding by the Union Spar Company against'the schooner Francis J. O’Hara, Jr. On intervening petition of the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is an intervening petition, asserting a lien in rem against the fishing schooner Francis J. O’Hara, Jr., to recover payment for salt furnished to that vessel. The claimant, *313O’Hara, is her managing owner. The case is submitted on an agreed statement of facts.
At the time when the salt in question was furnished, the schooner was being sailed on the one-quarter lay, under which the master and crew, and not the vessel, should pay for it. It is customary for fishing vessels to be sailed on “lays.” Several different lays arc recognized in the fishing business; the…
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