The Alice Tainter
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York.] [In admiralty. Libel in rem by James E. Chase against the bark Alice Tainter for supplies. Decree for claimant dismissing the libel in the Alice Tainter, Case No. 194. Li-belant appeals. Affirmed.]
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
The controlling question in this case is, whether the fact that this vessel was put under the British flag by a formal transfer to a British subject, recorded at the British consulate in New York, and by being registered at Hamilton, in the island of Bermuda, although she was really owned by Smith & Dunning, her original owners, and continued to be controlled by them until they sold her to Slocovich & Smith, just before the supplies in question were furnished, converted her into a foreign vessel, so as to subject her to a maritime lien for supplies. That the vessel lost…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The Alice TainterDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1871
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