
    (Not reported in C. Cls. It. nor in tlie l. 8. It.)
    Thomas McManus & Co., appellants, v. The United States, appellees.
    
      On the claimants' Appeal.
    
    1 he claimants briny their action for sendees of a vessel chartered by the defendants.
    
    The court below, being equally divided upon the. law, finds the facts and renders judgment, for the purposes of an appeal, in favor of the defendants. The claimants appeal.
    The. judgment of the court below is affirmed without an opinion being delivered.
    
      
      The Reporters’ statement of the ease:
    
    As no opinion was delivered by either court in this case, no syllabus can be supplied.
   The Chief Justice

announced the decision of the Supreme Court, April 28, 1879.  