Brig "City of Erie" v. Canfield

This case is brought into the court by certiorari to the circuit court for the county of Manistee.

In the court below the defendants in error were complainants, and proceeded against the brig under the act to provide for the collection of demands against water craft, approved February 5th, 1864. — Laws 1864, p. 107; Comp. L. 1871, p. 1861. The demand set forth in their complaint was that the brig, on the fifth day of June, 1868, u while navigating the waters of the state of Michigan, at the port of Manistee, in the county of Manistee aforesaid, in the employment and business of commerce and…