Court Opinion

ID: 6831578
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 19:54:28.233797+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:34.660541
License: Public Domain

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In the court below the dredge Hurricane was attached and sold under admiralty process, and the fund arising was, by final decree, awarded lienors for repairs, wages, and supplies. Thereupon the owners of the dredge took this appeal, wherein they, as stated by them, raise two questions, viz.: “Whether jurisdiction can be asserted to enforce contracts relating to the dredge, where the nature of the services performed by the dredge have not been shown to be maritime in their nature, or the services rendered and supplies furnished had no immediate relation to commerce by water or to navigation;” and, second, “whether the supply men exhausted all the sources of information reasonably open to them to find out whether the canal company,” which was in possession of the dredgé under an unrecorded bill of sale, “has authority to create liens against the dredge.”
The proofs were voluminous, and the court below filed a comprehensive opinion, in which the evidence was discussed, the legal questions involved examined, and the grounds of its conclusions fully stated. On appeal to this court, the case was fully discussed by counsel, and considered de novo by the court, with the result that we agree with the conclusions reached by the court below. Its discussion of the law and facts is so full and satisfactory that an additional opinion by this court could only be an effort to put in different language what has already been said in the opinion of Judge Thompson.
Adopting, 'therefore, his opinion, in 2 F.(2d) 70, as embodying our views, we affirm the decree below on it.