The Eledona

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The decree herein [Case No. 4,340] should be affirmed. The master of the brig made a contract for the mast in question, with third parties. He made no contract, express or implied, with the libellant. He did not procure, nor attempt to procure, the mast upon credit; certainly not from the libellant. With money in his possession, he bargained with third persons for the mast, to be made and put in upon his individual personal responsibility. The contract bound him to pay on performance of the contract. There was no idea of credit to any one, save that necessarily…