The Guiding Star
District Court, S.D. Ohio
In Admiralty. The facts in this case, briefly stated, are as follows: The steamboat Guiding Star was built in the summer of 1878 at the port of Cincinnati, entirely on credit, by Capt.
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In Admiralty. The facts in this case, briefly stated, are as follows: The steamboat Guiding Star was built in the summer of 1878 at the port of Cincinnati, entirely on credit, by Capt. W. B. Miller, who continued to be her sole owner and master up to the date of her seizure, in June, 1881. The claims filed against her are as follows: For foreign supplies and repairs, $17,393.33; for home supplies and repairs, $14,113.63; for insurance premiums, $3,080; for construction claims, $14,684.95; mortgage, $5,000; borrowed money, $22,380.64; allowance in lieu of a homestead, $500. The borrowed money…
1Opinion of the Court
Swing, D. J.
This case has been ably and elaborately presented to the court by counsel, both by oral arguments and in briefs. It involves the distribution of a fund amounting to nearly $10,000, now in the registry of the court, being the proceeds of the sale of the steamer Guiding Star. About 70 libels and intervenors have been filed, embracing such a variety of claims as to cover almost the entire domain of admiralty, so far as the question of liens and their priorities is concerned.
As to what are the facts in the case there is but little if any doubt, excepting on one point, and that is, the…
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