Court Opinion

ID: 7092493
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:07:27.484883+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:08.050502
License: Public Domain

Lowe, J.
A special proceeding under the boat act, to recover the value of work done and materials furnished in repairing the steamboat “ J. W. Jones.”
, The work was done in the spring of 1858. In the fall of that year the boat was seized and sold to defendants, to satisfy a claim for which there was a lien under the statute laws of Illinois. In the spring of 1859, before the year expired, while the boat was again navigating the waters of this state, she was taken by the plaintiff for the purpose of making her amenable for $93.60, being the price and value of the work and materials aforesaid.
The principal error insisted upon by appellants, was in holding that the seizure and sale of said boat to a third party under the statute laws of Illinois, did not have the effect of discharging her from the lien given to the plaintiff under the laws of this state.
*177This particular question was quite fully and fairly settled against the appellants, in the case of Haight & Bro. v. The Steamboat Henrietta, reported in 4 Iowa, 472 which upon examination is re-affirmed, making it unnecessary for us to restate the grounds of the opinion.
Counsel for appellants mistake in supposing that the maritime laws, as administered in courts of admiralty, apply to cases of this description which are limited to creditors of a particular locality haying liens against the boat in question.
Again, it is claimed that in rendering a judgment for the amount of plaintiff’s claim against the boat, the court at the same time rendered a judgment against Eobert B. Tedford, and John Ogden, upon whose bond the boat had been discharged. This we think was clearly authorized by sec. 2125 of the Code of 1851, and was not error. White v. Tisdale et al., 12 Iowa, 75. Other points are made in argu- ■ ment not suggested by the assignments, nor does it appear from the record that they were even raised in the court below. Judgment
Affirmed.