Court Opinion

ID: 8636804
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:46:35.428483+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:57.377045
License: Public Domain

The matter coming up before the court this morning,
NELSON, Circuit Justice,
said that argument of the petition was unnecessary, as he should hold the law to be that a maritime lien which attached to the rem was entitled to a preference over a mortgage, although the mortgage had been duly recorded; that no difference would be made between a lien given by a maritime law and one given by the local law of the state, if the latter was one of which a court of admiralty would take cognizance; that the lien creditors having obtained decrees in the circuit court, this court would not review the decree upon a petition filed in the circuit court; that this would dispose of the petition, and accordingly the application of the petitioners must be dismissed.