Samuel Nelson

“ The respondent set up, by way of plea, that he had previously filed a bill in equity against the libellants and others in the Circuit Court for Baltimore city, as joint owners and partners with him in the Susquehannah, for the purpose, among other things, of charging them with their proportionate share of the expenses of the repairs claimed ”

“ The expenses of the repairs and of the materials furnished the vessel were satisfactorily proved, and, unembarrassed with the attempt to prove the joint ownership, the case is a very simple and plain one. ”