In re Wright

Upon the sale under the decree, in the case of The J. O. Williams, 15 Fed. Rep. 558, there was a surplus of $8,946.48 in the registry after paying the amounts decreed to the libelant. Wright, as receiver of Brett, Son & Co., held a mortgage upon five-eighths of the vessel sold, and had previously presented and proved his claim to that proportion of the surplus, which was less than the mortgage debt, and the owners of the remaining three-eigEths of the vessel had proved their claims. The proceeds of the sale of the vessel were paid into the registry of the court on the fourteenth day of…