The Puritan
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Libel by Walter A. Norton and others against the schooner Puritan.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
The facts on which this case is to be decided are contained in the “Stipulation as to Libelants’ Evidence,” no other evidence having been introduced. The Puritan was owned by a Maine corporation, and constituted its only property. The corporation was not organized until September 20, 1917, and had hardly begun the actual business of operating the schooner at the period here in question. She was proceeding from her home port, Machiasport, Me., to New York, “where she was to be registered upon her arrival.” (Stipulation.) While in Massachusetts ports, “she became greatly…
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