The Globe
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Northern district of New York.] William H. Glenny filed a libel in rem, in the district court, against the steamboat ■Globe, to recover the sum of $-445 49, for supplies and materials furnished to said steamboat at the request of her master, at the port of Buffalo Creek, in the Northern district of New-York, between the 13th day of June, ISIS, and the 10th day of September, 1849. The libel was filed on the 11th of…
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Northern district of New York.] William H. Glenny filed a libel in rem, in the district court, against the steamboat ■Globe, to recover the sum of $-445 49, for supplies and materials furnished to said steamboat at the request of her master, at the port of Buffalo Creek, in the Northern district of New-York, between the 13th day of June, ISIS, and the 10th day of September, 1849. The libel was filed on the 11th of May, 1830, under the act of congress of February 2G, 1845 (5 Stat. 726), extending the admiralty jurisdiction in certain…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The extension of admiralty jurisdiction to the lakes by the act of congress of February 26, 1S45 (5 Stat. 726), did not take away the concurrent remedy that existed at common law. Indeed, that act saves, in express terms, this concurrent remedy, where it is competent, and also, any com current remedy which may be given by the state laws.' It was also saved by the general act of 17S9, conferring exclusive admiralty jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States. 1 Stat. 76, 77, § 9; New-Jersey Steam Nav. Co. v. Merchants’ Bank, 6 How. [47 U. S.] 344, 389,…
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