Hill v. The Golden Gate
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
[Appeals from the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of Missouri. [Libels by Hill & Conn and others against the Golden Gate, and by Johnson and others-against the Ambassador, to enforce liens for supplies. The libel of Hill & Conn and others was dismissed in the district court (Case No. 6,492), and the various libellants appeal.]
1Opinion of the Court
TREAT, District Judge.
These cases are appeals in admiralty. As they involve, to some extent, the same legal propositions, they will be considered together. The Golden Gate was owned in Indiana, enrolled in Kentucky, and chartered in Missouri. By *156the terms of the charter-party; the exclusive management and control, as well as the profits, of the vessel, were vested in the charterers. Whilst the latter were engaged ■in navigating her, the libellants furnished, at St Louis, the supplies in question. After these supplies were furnished, the vessel was seized under the Missouri boat act and the…
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- Birkbeck v. TuckerThe Superior Court of New York City · 1829
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