
    MILLER v. CASSILLY.
    Assumpsit — supplies to a steamboat in possession of a mortgagee — liability.
    A mortgagee of a boat in possession, is in legal contemplation the owner, and supplies furnished to her while so in possession, are held to be furnished to him.
    Assumpsit, for supplies furnished the steamboat Amazon. Plea non assumpsit. It was agreed that the supplies were furnished the boat, while the defendant had possession of her as mortgagee.
   Bv the Court.

A mortgagee in possession of the mortgaged property, is, in legal contemplation, the owner, and for supplies furnished this boat while the defendant was so in possession, he is liable; by intendment of law, they are furnished to him.

Judgment for the plaintiff.  