Legal Opinion

Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. v. Metropolitan S. S. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine

Decided December 26, 1908No. 625PublishedCited by 9 opinions

In Equity. On petition of W. & A. Fletcher Company to intervene.

1Opinion of the Court

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an intervening petition seeking to have liquidated and allowed certain claims, amounting to about $140,000, which the petitioner, W. & A. Fletcher Company, maintains are secured by mechanics’ liens on two steamers, the Harvard and the Yale, arising by force of the statutes of the state of New Jersey. The demands are for work and material furnished in the installation of the machinery of the two steamers as a part of their original construction. The petition as drawn also involved certain demands for labor and material furnished after the steamers were completed…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. The LottawannaSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  2. Dennick v. Railroad Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
  3. Union Refrigerator Transit Co. v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  4. Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  5. The J. E. RumbellSupreme Court of the United States · 1893

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Ely v. Murray & Tregurtha Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1912
  2. The American EagleDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1929
  3. Seaboard Fisheries Co. v. Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1918
  4. Brown v. Hunt & Mottet Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1920
  5. Hudson v. New York & Albany Transp. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910

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