Flaherty v. Doane

LOWELL, District Judge.

The decisions in the circuit court are, that, where the master of a fishing vessel becomes the owner for the voyage, the general owners are not personally liable for such supplies obtained in the home port, as the master had undertaken to furnish at his own expense. Mr. Justice Curtis, in giving his opinion in Mayo v. Snow [Case No. 9,356], refers to the then unpublished decision of the supreme judicial court, Harding v. Souther, 12 Cush. 307, as not being inconsistent with this doctrine, for certain reasons which he gives; and it is not so, though for a different…