McCarty v. Steam-Propeller City of New Bedford

Benedict, D. J.

This is a proceeding in rem, instituted by Daniel McCarty and Owen Hare, to enforce against the steam-propeller City of New Bedford a lien for their wages, earned in the navigation of that vessel in the coastwise trade of the United States, to-wit, in coastwise trade between the city of Fall Biver, in the state of Massachusetts, and the city of New York, by way of Narraganset bay, the Atlantic ocean, Long Island sound, the East river, and the waters of New York harbor.

The libel was filed in the southern district of New York on the twentieth day of February, 1880. The Old Colony…