McGee v. The Agnes Barton
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. The brig Agnes Barton came into the port of Philadelphia in the spring of 1885, needing repairs and an outfit of sails. Her home port was Baltimore, and her owners were all residents of that city. One of them, S. H. Travers, was managing owner, and had an interest of seven thirty-seconds in the vessel.
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In Admiralty. The brig Agnes Barton came into the port of Philadelphia in the spring of 1885, needing repairs and an outfit of sails. Her home port was Baltimore, and her owners were all residents of that city. One of them, S. H. Travers, was managing owner, and had an interest of seven thirty-seconds in the vessel. The brig lay in the port of Philadelphia while the needed repairs were put upon her; and while she was there, the libelants, William McGee & Son, of Baltimore, contracted with S. H. Travers, her managing owner, to furnish her with a suit of sails for $600, the amount now libeled…
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
I think the lien of McGee & Son for the amount of their bill was upon this brig as a foreign vessel. She was at Philadelphia, a foreign port; and she was furnished while there with the sails. The circumstance that the sails were contracted for and made at the home port of the vessel merely confuses the case, and does not change its nature. The lien attached while the vessel was in a foreign port. It attached as upon a foreign vessel. Its character was determined by the delivery of the sails at that port, and could not be changed by the accident that the sails were made at the home port, under…
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