diet, as between the'two tugs, tinderthe. circumstances supposed, It seems to me it completely answers the' claim that the McLane should bear anT portion of the damagesnstained by the Campbell. The exceptions to the commissioner's report are sustained, and a decree may be entered finding that the collision between the Brothers and the Campbell was brought about solely by the negligence of the former, and that the damages shall be assessed against the Brothers alone. The McLane, having been brought into the case at the instance of the owners of the Brothers, must be awarded costs against the Brothers.
THE LIvE OAK. l CARLSON
and others
t1. THE
LIvE Ou.
(Diltrict Oourt, No D. IfNnoiI. February 7, 1887.)
A mortgagee who permits a mortgagor to retain J;l0ssession sUbJecta a yu.el to .uch liens as may accrue under the latter'.
8chU!Jj1M&: KrtJmer, for intervenors. H. for mortgagees.
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BLODGETT, J;, (oraUy.) The libel in this case is for wages eamed by libelants during the season of 1885 and 1886. The schooner has been sold, and her proceeds brought into court; and Mrs. Esther Robinson a.nd Robert Liston in:tervened as mortgagees, claiming to be paid out of the proceeds in court in preference to the wages earned in 1885, --Mrs. Robineon's mortgage having been given in April, 1882, and due one year after date, and Liston's mortgage havinf?; been given in April, 1885, and both mortgages duly in the office of the collector of customs in the home port of the vessel. After payment of the costs and the.unchallenged maritime liens there is not money enough left to pay the libelants and these two mortgages in full, and it is now urged in be'half of these: mortgagees that their mortgages afe superior claims to the earned'in the season of 1885, on tlie ground· that the wages of 1885 are stale claixps, and should not be enforced as against these mortgages. , In the caa80f TM Ha'fria Ann, 6 Biss. 13, I had occasion to consider 'and pass.' upon the question of stale maritime claims" as against the f:ghta 'oftha bonafide'purchasers, and there' held' that a claim for seamen's wage. lReported by Theodote·Y. EttingjEsq., ofthePhilBdelphia bar.
'rRE SNOW DROP.
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waf;; stale, as against a bema fide purchaser for value, if not prosecuted during the season after the claim accrued. It was there stated that such had been the practice in this district for many years, and subsequent inquiry satisfies me that I was correct in that statement, and that the practice in this district has been to enforce maritime claims if proceedings were commenced during the next season after the claim accrued. About half the wages sued for in this libel accrued during the season of 1885, and proceedings to enforce the same by a libel upon the vessel were commenced in September, 1886. Both these mortgages were given before the services were rendered for which the wages in question are claimed, and Mrs. Robinson's mortgage was long past due at the time these wages were earned; she having allowed the vessel to remain in the possession of the mortgagor. and these debts to accrue after her right of foreclosure '!as complete, while Liston's mortgage, like Mrs. Robinson's, left the vessel in the hands of the mortgagor, and subject to suchmaritime liens for wages and supplies as might accrue under mortgagor's management. The facts bring the question in this case clearly within the rule announced in the case of The Harriet Ann, and I see no reason why that rwe should not be followed here. The motion to apply the proceeds upon the mortgages in preference to the wages of 1885 is overruled, and an order will be entered directing that the wages and other maritime liens be paid in full .out of the proceeds before anything is applied on the mortgages.
THE SNOW DROP.1 UNITED S'rATES '11. THE SNOW DROP·
. (JiIrcuit Oourt,S. D. MiBBiaBippi. January, 1887.) « 1. ADMm.u.'J!Y-PRACTICE-REV.'ST. 2807,3088. .. ... Whether a libel can be maintained on the instance side of the. court to reo cover from the vessel, under U. S. Rev. St. § 8088, the penaltyimpo9ed on the master and mate for violation of section 2807, both sec'tions being embraced in title 84 of the Revised (" Collection of Duties, ") without an averment being m'ade as tOllrevious seizure by the customs officers within the district, fj'l.tOn'8. See The MiBsouri. 3 Ben. 508. 2. ST. AT LARGE, 322. . Under the statute approved February 8, 1881, (21 St. 322,) in order to recover any penalty or forfeiture by force of any of the provisions of title 84 of the Revised Statutes·.the govenunent must aUege and prove that, at the time of the aUeged· illegal a.ct charged, the master or owner was a consenting party or privy thereto. . ,
Admiralty Appeal. I. B. Ha'f'1"iJJ, U. S. Atty., for the Government. WiUiam' Grant, for claimant. ' 1
Reported by Joseph P.,Hornor.ESIl., of the New Orlean9 bar.