NEW ENGLAND TRAWLER EQUIP. CO. v. ONE MODEL D TRAWLER WINCH AND APPURTENANCES

No. 559.

5 F.Supp. 627 (1933)

NEW ENGLAND TRAWLER EQUIPMENT CO. v. ONE MODEL D TRAWLER WINCH AND APPURTENANCES et al.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

October 10, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abbott, Drew, Rogerson & Carr, of Boston, Mass., for libelant.

Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for petitioner Westerbeke Fishing Gear Co., Inc.

George E. Mears (of Thompson, Spring & Mears), of Boston, Mass., for petitioner Ruby A. Story, administratrix.

S. M. Whalen, of Boston, Mass., for respondent.


LOWELL, District Judge.

Question of jurisdiction.

The owner of a winch sold on conditional sale to the motor vessel Donald seeks possession of the winch on the ground that the required payments have not been made. This is a question on which there is apparently very little authority, but I am of the opinion that as it relates to the possession of a chattel which by use has become maritime, this court has jurisdiction...

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