H. E. Willard

Gray, Circuit Justice.

This was a libel in admiralty in rem for supplies furnished by the libelants to the schooner H. E. Willard, a domestic vessel, in her home port, and for which they claimed a lien under the laws of the state of Maine and the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States. The claim and answer of two of the part owners of the vessel, intervening for the interest of themselves and of their co-owners, alleged that the case was not within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the court, because the libelants were the owners of three thirty-seconds of the…