Ceballos v. The Alert

The evidence taken in the cause, while it leaves no doubt that the libelant is entitled to a decree against the Alert, is, notwithstanding, insufficient to clear up the matters in dispute as between the steamer and the steam-ship company, who, as charterers, were brought" into the cause upon the steamer’s petition, and may possibly be .bound. *686to respond for any judgment recovered by the libelant. After so long a delay, for the purpose of securing all attainable evidence as between the defendants, the libelant’s right to a decree, as it now appears from the testimony, should not be longer…