District Court, D. Rhode Island June 15, 1872 (Childs v. Gladding)

KNOWLES, District Judge.

This is a cause of possession, civil and maritime, promoted by C. T. Childs and others, against Samuel Gladding and others, the libellants, as owners of twenty-three thirty-second parts of the schooner Allen Middleton, Jr., claiming possession and control of her, as against the respondents, the owners of the remaining nine thirty-second parts.