The Salvator

FORD, District Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty in which the libellant, seeks to enforce a maritime lien against the Gas Screw Salvator for netting furnished the latter in the amount of $290.40, with interest. The main defense is that the lien was lost through laches.

Findings of Fact.

On July 3, 1936 one Joseph Ponzo, Jr., was the owner of the vessel Salvator and on that date there was delivered to the Salvator by the libellant, as a result of Ponzo’s order, a certain quantity of white netting for use in the repair of seines employed in mackerel fishing. That $290.40 was a fair price for the…