Ex Parte Boyer
Supreme Court of the United States
Petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the judge of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois from exercising jurisdiction and entering a final decree in a suit in admi^ity in that court, growing out of a collision on the Illinois carni.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bjatchford
The owners of the canal-boat Brilliant and her cargo filed a libel in admiralty, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, against the steam canal-boat B and C, in a case of collision. The libelalleges that the Brilliant is a vessel of more than 20 tons burden, and was employed, at the time of the collision, in the business of commerce and navigation between ports and places in different States and Territories in the United States, upon the lakes and navigable waters connecting said lakes; that the B and C is a vessel of more than 20 tons burden, and…
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