The Island City

LOWELL, District Judge.

I cannot uphold any of the petitions excepting those for wages, on the footing of maritime liens, though many of them are declared on as such. The equitable owner, with whom most of the contracts for labor and materials were made, lived here, and the courts look to the real facts and the actual credit in a case of this kind. Thus if a ship is held out as foreign, and is with good reason believed to be so by persons dealing with the master, the courts will hold her to have been foreign. The St. Jago de Cuba, 9 Wheat. [22 U. S.] 409. And if the equitable owner is the…