Hard v. The Advance
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel by Anson W. Hard and others against the proceeds of the sale of the steamship Advance, for certain disbursements, and commissions.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed by the libel-ants, bankers in New York, to enforce an alleged maritime lien for moneys advanced at Victoria, Brazil, by a branch house of the libel-ants’ firm, for the purpose of disbursing the steamship Advance upon her last departure from that port before the failure of the United States & Brazil Mail Steamship Company, her owners, in February, 1893.
The libelants’ branch house had been acting as the agents of the company’s steamers at Victoria for about a year previous, under a power of attorney executed’to them by the steamship company, dated…
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