Peyroux and Others v. HOWARD AND VARION.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. In the district court a libel was filed on the 10th December 1830, by Howard and .Varion, shipwrights, , residing in New Orleans, against the'steamboat Planter, claiming the sum of two thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents, being the balance asserted to be due to them for the price of work, labour, materials furnished and repairs made on the said boat,…
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APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. In the district court a libel was filed on the 10th December 1830, by Howard and .Varion, shipwrights, , residing in New Orleans, against the'steamboat Planter, claiming the sum of two thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents, being the balance asserted to be due to them for the price of work, labour, materials furnished and repairs made on the said boat, under- contracts of 13th September and 19th October 1830; and alleging that, by the admiralty law and the law of the state…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
delivered the-opinion of the Court.
This case comes up from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. The proceedings in the court below were in rem against the steamboat Planter, to recover compensation for repairs made upon the boat.
The libel states that Howard and Varion, shipwrights, residing in the city of New Orleans, had found materials and performed certain work on the steamboat Planter, for which the said steamboat and her owners were justly indebted to them in the sum of two thousand orte hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents; and…
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