The Amelia
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[In admiralty. Libel by Abraham Hill to recover possession of the yacht Amelia from J. N. Towns. Libel dismissed, with costs. Reported as Hill v. The Amelia, Case No. 6,487. Decree affirmed.]
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
The facts found in this case appear in the findings placed on file, and, so far as the material question is concerned, do not differ in substance from those which appeared in the district court. The legal title to the vessel did not pass from Towns, the builder, to Doncomb by any instrument of transfer, nor was there any *595absolute delivery of the yacht. It was part of the agreement that a bill of sale should be executed when the agreement on the part of Doncomb was fully performed, and this time never arrived. The case, therefore, is substantially, as it is stated in the…
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