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was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland.

It was a libel filed in the District Court by James W. Osborn of the city of Baltimore, against the barque Laura, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, Osborn being the assignee of Loring & Co., merchants in Valparaiso. The barque Laura belonged to Plymouth, in Massachusetts, and the lien claimed was for supplies and repairs furnished to the vessel at Valparaiso. The District Court decreed that there was due to the libellant the sum of $2,910.23, with interest from the 1st of April, 1852, which decree was affirmed in the Circuit Court.

The case was argued at the preceding term, and held under a curia advisare vult until the present.

The circumstances of the case are set forth with great particularity in the opinion of the court, and need not be repeated.

It was by Messrs. Brune and Brown for the appellants, and by Messrs. Wallis and J. H. Thomas for the appellee.

Some of the points made by counsel related to particular items in the accounts between the parties, which it is not deemed necessary to notice in this report. Those which