The J. E. Rumbell
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Tins was a certificate from, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit under the act of March 3, ,1891,- c. 517, § 0, (26 Stat. 828,) of a question upon which it desired the instruction of this court, in an admiralty appeal. The case, as stated in the certificate, was as follows: Ou August 15, 1891, under a writ of venditioni exponas from the District.
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Tins was a certificate from, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit under the act of March 3, ,1891,- c. 517, § 0, (26 Stat. 828,) of a question upon which it desired the instruction of this court, in an admiralty appeal. The case, as stated in the certificate, was as follows: Ou August 15, 1891, under a writ of venditioni exponas from the District. Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, in admiralty, the propeller J. E. Rumbell was sold by the marshal for the sum of…
1Opinion of the Court
■ Mb. Justice Gray,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. . . •
By the admiralty law, maritime liens or privileges for neces- ■ sary advances made,- or supplies furnished, to keep a vessel fit for sea, take precedence of all prior claims upon her, unless for seamen’s wages Or- Salvage. It is upon this ground, that such advances or supplies, made or furnished in good faith to the master in á foreign port, are preferred to a prior mortgage, orto a.forfeiture to the United States for a precedent violation of the navigation laws. The St. Jago de Cuba, 9 Wheat. 409, 416; The…
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