CUSHMAN, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).
The question first to be considered by the court is as to the propriety of the exceptive allegations of the claimants and the resistance affidavits of the libelant.
Admiralty courts, within the sphere of their jurisdiction, act as courts of equity. Plummer v. Webb, Fed. Cas. No. 11,233, p. 893, decision by Justice Story; Benedict on Admiralty (5th Ed.) § 70.
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