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 884 FEDERAL REPORTER. �of December, Eadmann was duly serveci, and on the return day appeared in the cause, and thereaffcer filed his answer to Dent's libel, denying ail liability upon the chai'ter of the eteamship Croft, and also denying that he had any credits or effects in the hands of Patterson and the other owners of the Bteamship Blagden. �Nearly a year after, and on November 7, 1878, the second of the above mentioned actions was commenced by the iiling of a libel by John H. Janssen, assignee of the before men- tioned Cari Eadmann, against the before mentioned William Patterson, John Doe and Eichard Eoe, owners of the steam- ship Bladgen, to recover of the said owners the sum of £355, 19s. 6d., and also the sum of $396.22, alleged to have become due by virtue of a charter of said steamer made by Eadmann ; being the same charter referred to in the answer of Patterson garnishee, in the suit of Dent; which sums Janssen elaimed to have become due and paj^able to him by virtue of an assignment of the said charter of the Blagden by Eadmann to him. Process having been duly isaued upon this libel of Janssen against Patterson and the other owners of the Blagden, and returned "not found, " and it being made to appear to the court that the money paid into the registry in behalf of Patterson, on the eleventh of December, 1877, in the manner already described, was elaimed by Janssen to be the money of Patterson and the other owners of the Blag- den, applicable to the payment of the debt then due from said owners to him, as alleged in his libel, an order was made impounding the said money in the registry until the further order of the court, and directing that ail persons hav- ing or claiming to have any interest in said money be cited to appear and answer the claim of Janssen thereto on the twenty-sixth day of March following. Due service of this order having been made by publication, in the manner di- rected, and by delivering the order to the proetors for the libellant, Dent, upon the return day thereof Dent duly appeared, and ail others made default. On the fifth of April follow- ing, Dent filed an answer to the libel of Janssen, wherein he accompanies a deniai of most of the averments of the libel ��� �