800
FEDERAL REPORTER.
THE MARK LANE.·
(District Oourt, E. D. PennsylfJania. September 15, 1882.) MARITIME LIEN-STEVEDORE-!:lUBCONTRACTOR. .
Where the master of a vessel employs a stevedore to discharge cargo, and the latter employs laborers for that purpose, such laborer.; have no lien upon the vessel. ,
Libel ofAlexander Baird et al. against the steam-ship Mark Lane to recover wages. The facts disclosed were as follows: The Mark Lane arrived at Philadelphia April 30. 1882, with a cargo of potatoes, part of which were rotten. The master contracted with one James Steen, a stevedore, to discharge the cargo, sound and unsound, at a price Of 40 cents a ton. Steen in turn employed the libelants. The board of health afterwards ordered the master to remove the rotten potatoes from the city as a nuisance, and Steen thereupon contracted with the laborers at increased wages. The sound potatoes- were discharged upon the wharf, and the steamship proceeded down the river with the libelants and discharged the rotten part overboard. A dispute afterwards arose between Steen and the libelants, he claiming that they were to be paid for tne time they actually worked and the time spent in going up and down the river, and they claiming wages from the time of leaving the wharf to the return to the city. Libelant failing to obtain from Steen the amount claimed. filed this libel. J ..Joseph Mu.rphy and W. P. Swope, for libelants.
Henry G. Ward, for respondent. D. J. defense urged is two-fold-first, that no lien arose from the service; and, second, if a lien did arise it was in favor of Steen, who alone was known to respondent. As the second point is, in my judgment, well taken, and is fatal, the first need not be considered. Steen contracted to discharge the cargo, a'nd employed libel. ants as laborers for that purpose. When the prohibition to discharge upon the wharf came, and arrangements were made to do it elsewhere, the relations between Steen and his employers continued, as to the extent of wages. Their rights were in no other respect affected. As between them and the ship Steen performed the service. No other view of the subject is supported by the evidence. The lihelants are entitled to payment -from Steen according to the rate of wages contracted for with him. If heis in default they have a remedy elsewhere. They are here pursuing the ship only because he and they disagree respecting their contract. He having been paid in full for the service, the claim here seems especially inequitable. The libel must be dismissed, with costs. . BUTLER,
*Heported by Frank P. Prichard, Esq.· of the Philadelphia oar.
WALDMAN V. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO.
801
WALDMAN .". PENNSYLVANIA
R. CO.1882.)
(District O(J'Ul't, 8. D. New York. REMOVAL OF CAUSES-PRACTICE.
Where' a case is removed into the United States circuit court after it has been put on the calendar and noticed for trial in the state court, it stands ready for trial in the circuit court immediately upon the record being filed therein.
This action was begun in the marine court of the city of New York. On May 29, 1882, the defendant served its answer, whereupon plaintiff filed a note of issue, and on June 7, 1882, noticed the case for trial for June 13th. On June 23d the defendant filed a petition and bond for removal into this court, and 'a removal was on that day duly had. The defendant filed the record on the first day of the present term of this court, (October 16th,) and it appears that the plaintiff had previously put the case upon the calendar of this court and again noticed it for trial. The defendant moved to strike the cause from the calendar as improperly on, for the reason that the clerk could not put it upon the calendar, and plaintiff could not notice it for trial in this court, until after the record had been filed. The plaintiff, in opposition, claimed that, the cause standing "for trial" before removal, his practice had been regular, and cited section 6, Act of 1875. and Railro(£d Co. v. Koontz, 104 U. S. 18-18. B. Lewinson, for plaintiff. Robinson, Scribner & Bright, for defendant. SHIPMAN, D. J. Under the rules of the circuit court I think that this case is now in a condition to be assigned for trial at any time at the present term. · From No Y. Daily Register, November 4, 188a.
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