Case ID: f-cas_13/html/0643-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BENEDICT, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 7,327.
    The J. M. WELSH.
    [8 Ben. 211.] 
    
    District Court, E. D. New York.
    July, 1875.
    J. J. Allen, for libellant.
    E. D. McCarthy, for claimants.
    
      
       [Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and Benj. Lincoln Benedict, Esq., and-here reprinted by permission.]
    
   BENEDICT, District Judge.

The terms of the contract under which the libellant Austin claims to have towed the vessel proceeded against show beyond dispute that the libel-lant relied solely upon the personal credit of Easton & McMahon, and not upon the credit of the boats towed.

The contract is inconsistent with the idea of a lien, and shows that a lien upon the boats was not within the contemplation of the parties. For services rendered under such a contract, and upon an exclusively personal credit, no lien exists. The libel is accordingly dismissed with costs.