Tellefsen v. Fee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for assault and false imprisonment. The defendant, a constable of the city of Boston, justified under a writ issued by the Municipal Court of said city, in favor of Neis C. Johnson, described as of Boston, against one Tellefsen, described as master of the steamship Albert, commorant of said Boston. The declaration was on an account annexed for work on the steamship.
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Tort, for assault and false imprisonment. The defendant, a constable of the city of Boston, justified under a writ issued by the Municipal Court of said city, in favor of Neis C. Johnson, described as of Boston, against one Tellefsen, described as master of the steamship Albert, commorant of said Boston. The declaration was on an account annexed for work on the steamship. To the writ was annexed a certificate of a master in chancery authorizing the arrest, if the arrest was authorized by law. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hopkins, J., it appeared that the defendant was a duly…
1Opinion of the CourtLathbop, J.
The Municipal Court of the city of Boston had no jurisdiction of the action brought against the plaintiff in this case for wages alleged to be due one Johnson, and the writ upon which the plaintiff was arrested on mesne process was of no effect.
By art. 13 of the treaty between the United States and Sweden and Norway of 1827, 8 U. S. Sts. 346, 352, it is provided that “ the consuls, vice-consuls, or commercial agents, or the persons duly authorized to supply their places, shall have the right, as such, to sit as judges and arbitrators in such differences as may arise between the captains and…
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