"In the home port, where all the owners reside, the managing owner, though registered as such at the custom house, can not, merely by virtue of that relation, order supplies and bind his coöwners to a personal liability therefor."
12. Compensation and Lien.—
The compensation of the managing owner or ship's husband depends upon contract, express or implied, with the owners. In some localities, usage may provide a commission on the amounts of money which he handles. Where he is not one of the owners, the law would doubtless imply a promise to pay him a reasonable compensation; where he is a part owner himself, it is doubtful if compensation could be recovered in the absence of a definite agreement; ordinarily tenants in common are not entitled to charge each other for services rendered in the care and management of the common property, in the absence of a statute or special contract. The managing owner is not entitled to a lien upon the ship for his compensation or disbursements but he may have a lien upon the profits of a voyage in his hands or upon the proceeds of the ship in the same situation.
REFERENCES FOR GENERAL READING
Shipping and Admiralty, Parsons, Vol. I, Chapter IV.
Admiralty, Hughes, Chapter XV.
Spedden v. Koenig, 78 Fed. 504.
Law of Part-Owners of Vessels, 88 Am. Dec. 364.
Gillespie v. Winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 318.
Mitchell v. Chambers, 43 Mich. 150.