JOHNSON & TOWERS BALTIMORE, INC. v. THE DREDGE

Adm. No. 4652.

241 F.Supp. 598 (1965)

JOHNSON & TOWERS BALTIMORE, INC. v. THE DREDGE, her engines, tackle, etc.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

May 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Janssens, Jr., and Southey F. Miles, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for libelant.

Floyd J. Kintner and Kintner & Evans, Elkton, Md., for respondent.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Libelant seeks to establish and enforce a maritime lien against a dredge for work, labor and material furnished to the dredge on the order of a former owner. Claimant, the present owner, has three lines of defense: (1) that the dredge is not a vessel and therefore not subject to a maritime lien; (2) that by virtue of a Maryland statute (Code, Art. 23, secs. 34-38) libelant's lien was subordinate to a mortgage which was foreclosed, and therefore...

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