Jackson v. Steamboat Magnolia
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the middle district of Alabama. The case came up on an appeal from the judgment of the District Court, dismissing the libel for want of jurisdiction, after the following agreement had been filed: Be it remembered, that off the trial of this cause, which was a libel in admiralty, it was agreed that the question of jurisdiction should be submitted to the court on the facts heréinafter stated, which were…
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the middle district of Alabama. The case came up on an appeal from the judgment of the District Court, dismissing the libel for want of jurisdiction, after the following agreement had been filed: Be it remembered, that off the trial of this cause, which was a libel in admiralty, it was agreed that the question of jurisdiction should be submitted to the court on the facts heréinafter stated, which were admitted to be true; ■ and if the court should be of the opinion that the court had jurisdiction of the cause, then the cause…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The only question presented for our consideration on this appeal is, whether the court below had jurisdiction.
The libel purports to be in a cause of collision, civil and maritime. It alleges that the steamboat Wetumpka, a vessel of three hundred tons burden, was on a voyage from New Orleans to the city of Montgomery, in Alabama; that while ascending the Alabama river., she was run into and sunk by the steamboat Magnolia, which was descending the same.
The answer of the respondents, among other things, alleges “that the collision took place far above tide-water, on the *298Alabama river, in the…
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