Privilege Yachting, Inc. v. Teed

How courts have described this case

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• “A possessory action permits a party to adjudicate the right to possession of property that has been wrongfully taken.”
• plaintiff was really asserting a breach of contract claim and could not obtain admiralty jurisdiction merely by invoking Rule D without showing entitlement to make petitory or possessory claims
• “A petitory suit is an action to try title to a vessel. In order to bring petitory suit, the Plaintiff must assert legal title to the vessel. The assertion of equitable title alone is not sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).