The Montello
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin. This ease was heard on the libel of information, as amended, filed by the United States against the steamer Montello, and the exception to it taken by the claimants.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin. This ease was heard on the libel of information, as amended, filed by the United States against the steamer Montello, and the exception to it taken by the claimants. The object of the proceeding was to recover two penalties alleged to have been forfeited to the United States; one by the neglect of the owners or captain of the vessel to procure her enrolment and license whilst she was engaged in navigating Fox River, in the State of Wisconsin, between Oshkosh and Portage City, and in transporting passengers and merchandise between…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The libel does not impart any information as to the character of Fox River, or its connection with other waters, and it is only from the general allegation of the libel that the vessel transported passengers and merchandise upon the navigable waters of the United States, preceding the allegation as to the transportation on Fox River, that we are justified in inferring that the libel intended to state that Fox River was a navigable water of the United States.
We are supposed to know judicially the principal features of the geography of our country, and, as a part of it, what streams are' public…
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