The Geisha
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Suit by the Lockwood Manufacturing Company against the steamer Geisha. On petition by the receiver in bankruptcy of the Boston Risheries Company for an order that the marshal turn over to him the proceeds of a sale of the steamer made under order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
The facts in this case are similar to those in The Bethulia (No. 539), 200 Fed. 862, in which the same libelant has proceeded against the steamer Bethulia belonging to the same owner. This libel was filed on August 30, 1911, before the bankruptcy proceedings began; but the marshal was unable to take actual custody of the vessel under his warrant until October 6, 1911, after the adjudication in bankruptcy had been on that day ordered. The libel asserts a maritime lien for supplies and repairs to the amount of $304.61. There are as yet no intervening petitions by other…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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