Lynch v. Dowling

An inspection of the complaint satisfies me that the plaintiff cannot, upon the facts alleged, obtain in this court, with its limited statutory jurisdiction of a purely legal nature, that equitable relief which he will require to entitle him to á recovery In disposing of the question the stinted legal jurisdiction of a common law nature which limits the marine court must be borne in mind, and not confounded with that of the superior city courts, which, since the Constitution of 1846, have possessed the united powers of *164a common law and equity jurisdiction; and these courts, having plenary…