The Jennie Middleton

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The libel in this case was filed to recover a balance due for repairs on the schooner Jennie Middleton incurred under the following circumstances: In March, 1898, the schooner Jennie Middleton was in the yard of the libelants at Camden, N. J., in need of repairs. The captain did not feel authorized to determine the extent of these repairs, and the shipwrights were referred by him to Messrs. Bartlett & Sheppard, of Philadelphia, who were the managing owners of the schooner, for orders respecting the same. Subsequently Mr. Mathis, one of the libelants, and Mr.…