The C. N. Johnson
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. This was a libel for repairs put upon the schooner C. N. Johnson,> at the port of Chicago, in the spring and early summer of 1880, to the amount, including interest, of $710.34. Defense, stale claim. One Buckley was the real owner of the vessel, though the title stood of record in the name of Joseph Single, of Wausau, Wisconsin. Milwaukee was her home port.
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In Admiralty. This was a libel for repairs put upon the schooner C. N. Johnson,> at the port of Chicago, in the spring and early summer of 1880, to the amount, including interest, of $710.34. Defense, stale claim. One Buckley was the real owner of the vessel, though the title stood of record in the name of Joseph Single, of Wausau, Wisconsin. Milwaukee was her home port. After the completion of the repairs, in June, 1880, the schooner made one trip to Green Bay, and was then taken to the lower lakes, where she continued to run until the libel was filed. Payments of money on the work done were…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Two questions are presented by the record in this case: (1) Whether Weeks, the ixresent owner, purchased the schooner without notice of libelants’ claim; (2) whether libelants were guilty of laches in'not taking earlier proceedings against the .vessel. The claimant, Weeks, is sought to be charged with notice by the testimony of Buckley, tho vendor, who says he told Weeks, on two different occasions, that the Johnson owed a ship-yard bill at Chicago, but did not state the amount, as he did not know himself the balance due to the libelants. Weeks, he says, made no reply. In this connection he…
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