City of Hartford

Brown, D. J.

The libel in this case was filed on the twenty-second day of March, 1881, to recover $1,012.15 damages for injuries by collision. The Hartford & New York Steam-boat Company appeared as claimant, and gave a bond under the act of 1847 for the release of the vessel arrested, with two sureties, who were approved upon justification. The claimant afterwards filed an answer, and the cause is still pending in this court. Upon an affidavit showing that one of the sureties has died insolvent, that the claimant is a foreign corporation, and has made an assignment of all its property and is…