The Elizabeth Monroe Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation against the steamer Elizabeth Monroe Smith; the Martinez-Butler Navigation Corporation being claimant. Decree for libelant, and claithant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
The appellee, the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation, hereinafter called the repairman, on the 11th *610of May, 1918, libeled the steamer Elizabeth Monroe Smith for a repair bill of many items, all set forth in an annexed account and amounting in the aggregate to upwards of $13,600. The appellant, the Martinez-Butler Navigation Corporation, asserting that it was a body corporate of New York, and hereinafter called the owner, appears to have intervened as claimant and owner, and by furnishing a stipulation for the ship procured its release. The case came up for trial…
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