Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit December 20, 1935, No. 7919 (United States v. Jardine)

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the libel of the gas screw Cacoethes, a public vessel of the United States. It is from a decree establishing a maritime lien for $2,391.38 and condemning the vessel for its payment. When seized under the writ of attachment, the Cacoethes was in the actual physical possession of the United States, being employed as a coast guard .