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justness of the principles applied by the court in making this final distribution, which will be as follows: As the court is ao\ised that there is still pending before the commissioner for his report a claim for seaman's wages, amounting to $240, this sum should be set apart, with such costs as are likely to accrue, awaiting the adjudication of that claim. The sums of $196.70 and $35.20 will be paid to the Pacific Marine Supply Company and William J. Brady, respectively, for supplies, materials, and labor done to the tug. The sum of $935.62, the balance due on its mortgage on the tug, will be paid to the Pacific Marine Supply Company. The residue, after paying the costs of suit, will then be paid to William J. Brady, in partial satisfaction of his second mortgage. He will also get the benefit of such part of the amount reserved to abide the result of the claim for seaman's wages as the court may decide the latter not entitled to. Let decree for these several amounts be entered and an order of distribution made. THE HATTIE BELL. JOHNSON v. THE HATTIE BELL (WOOD et aL, Interveners). (District COUl1:, D. Oregon. December 17, 1894.) No. 3,486. ADMIRALTy-REARHEST OF VESSEJ,-WnEN
The rule allowing the rearrest of a vessel in case of misrepresentation and fraud or of an improvident release goes no further than to allow such rearrest before judgment, and after the cause of action has become res judicata there is no power in the court to order a rearrest.
This was a libel by A. H. Johnson against the steamer Hattie Bell. Z. C. Wood and others intervened, and petitioned for the rearrest of the vessel, and her condemnation in satisfaction of their claims, as. set forth in their libel, under which the vessel had been previously arrested, and discharged upon bond. James F. Watson, for petitioners. Robert T. Platt, for claimant. BELL1NGER, District Judge. The Hattie Bell was heretofore libeled, at the suit of the petitioners, to enf()rce certain liens held by them, and was released upon a bond filed by the claimant. Upon her release the vessel was taken into the custody of a state court by the receiver of a company having a mortgage lien thereon, where she was subsequently sold on foreclosure, and passed by successive transfers to her present claimant, the Washougal & La Camas Transportation Company. The interveners in the suit referred to now petition the court, alleging that the bond upon which the release waa had was a fraudulent bond; that the surety therein is without pr()perty, or ability to respond to the judgment entered thereon; that he signed such bond through the misrepresentations of the claimant of the vessel; and that the affidavit attached to such bond, purporting to be made by such surety, is false and forged,-and they pray for a rearrest of suoo vessel, and for her condemnation in sat.lsf&ction of the liens ()f the petitioners, as set forth in their libeL
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FEDERAL REPORTER,
vol. 65.
Subsequent to the release of the vessel, the interveners, with notice of the claim made by the surety in the undertaking for the release of the veasel that a fraud had been practiced upon him, and that said bond was worthless, took a judgment in thisl court against the stipulators on such bond for the aggregate amount of their claims. The rule allowing the rearrest of a vessel in case of misrepresen· tation and fraud, or of an improvident release, goes no further than to allow such rearrest before judgment,and in such case the power must be exercised with great care and caution: It is argued in support of the petition that there is a distinction between cases where it is sought to amend the libel so as to increase the amount claimed, and those cases where no such amendment is sought, and that this explains the restriction, upon the power of the court to or· del' a rearrest, to cases that have not proceeded to judgment. I am of the opinion that such distinction does not exist. The reason why a rearrest will not be allowed after judgment is because the cause of action has passed into res judicata. It is true that, in the cases cited by the present claimant, applications were made to amend the libels so as to increase the amount of the claims, as well as for rearrests of the released vessels, but the refusal to order the rearrests had nothing to do with the question of amendment. There could be neither amendment nor rearrest, because of want of power in the court to direct either; the cause of action, as already stated, having become res judicata. If it was within the power of the court to grant thE' prayer of the petition, its exercise, upon the facts presented, would not be justified. In taking their judgment, the interVE'ners chose to rely upon the bond, with knowledge of its character, or with such notice as has the effect of knowledge. The bond is not a nullity. The fraud that is charged in respect to it affects its sufficiency, not its obligatory character. The proceedings and sale in the state court were authorized by what was done here in the petitioners' case. The comity that exists between courts, and the importance that attaches to such sales as this, will not permit them to be disregarded, unless the authority is clear and the circumstances of the case imperatively demand it. The petition is dismissed. THE HA YTIAN REPUBLIC. UNITED STATES v. THE HAYTIAN REPUBLIC (BURCKHARDT et al., Interveners).
(District Court, D. Oregon. December 17, 1894No. 3.403.
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Money loaned to the owners to be used in running the vessel, and in fact applied to that purpose, is a credit to the owners, and not a lien on the ship; and the same is true of bills for the ship's advertisements for business. Oll' VESSEL FOR SMUGGLING KNOWLEDGE OF SUPPLY
SAME MEN.
The fact that a shIp has been arrested for smuggling, anu released on bond. held suftleienUo put persons sublilequently furnishing her wIth sup-