Forrest v. Vanderbilt

BRADFORD, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in a canse of possession, civil and maritime. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., the appellee, filed his libel to recover a certain naptha launch alleged then to he in the possession of Robert L. Forrest and J. G. ReafieWhitaker. Forrest alone made claim to the launch and answer to the libel. The case was heard on exceptions to the answer. The exceptions were sustained, and the court below decreed that possession of the launch should forthwith he delivered to the libelant by Forrest. The averments of the libel material to the inquiry before us…