Violett v. Fairchild

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

This is an appeal by Horace Conduit, Jesse Hart and Joseph D. Foster from a judgment distributing the proceeds of the steamer Luna, among the creditors of the commercial firms which had in succession used the boat for the transportation of persons and merchandise for hire; and we must here premise, that in styling the diiferent sets of persons who thus used that vessel commercial partners, we mean only that they should be viewed in that light for the purposes of this suit.

The district judge applied the fund as follows: X. To the payment of…