Snow & Burgess v. One Hundred & Eighty & Three-Fourths Tons of Scrap Iron

Colt, D. J.

This is a suit on a bottomry bond brought against a portion of the cargo of the brig Mechanic, of Portland, Maine, and the proceeds of said portion, in whosesoever hands the same may be found. It is admitted that the iron claimed was part of the cargo at the time the bond was made, and that it was subsequently *518delivered to the Rhode Island Horseshoe Company, of Providenee. It appears that the marshal, not finding the iron, attached the proceeds in the hands of the Rhode Island Horseshoe Company by serving a copy of the attachment and monition upon the president of the company, hut…