Townsley v. Barneson
District Court, D. Washington
This was a libel by John Barneson and Bicliard Chilcott, co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of Barneson & Chilcott, against the bark Highland Light and the ship Occidental, to recover for services rendered as stevedores in loading these vessels.
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This was a libel by John Barneson and Bicliard Chilcott, co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of Barneson & Chilcott, against the bark Highland Light and the ship Occidental, to recover for services rendered as stevedores in loading these vessels. The claimant, T. F. Townsley, having filed a cross libel against the libel-ants, claiming damages for breach of an agreement to furnish tug boais for tov/ing the said vessels, has now moved for an order requiring libelants to give security for the payment of any judgment which may be recovered against them on the cross libel.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFOED, District Judge.
This cause has been heard upon an application by the cross libelant for an order requiring the firm of Barneson & Chilcott, who are original libelants in several suits in rem against the bark Highland Light and the ship Occidental, to give security for the payment of any judgment which may be recovered by the cross libelant, as provided by the fifty-third admiralty rule, prescribed by the supreme court, and also upon exceptions to the cross libel. Barneson & Chilcott are suing to collect the amounts which they have earned by their services as stevedores in loading the…
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