Wyatt v. Stuckley

The only ground upon which it is claimed that this case should be reversed is, that the bond upon which the suit was brought, having been given to release a steamboat seized by process issued, out of a state court, under the statute (2 G-. & H. 801, et seq.,) was void because the state court had no jurisdiction to enforce the lien which the statute provides. Where the claim against the vessel could be enforced in admiralty, as a maritime lien, we have been compelled, by recent decisions of the Supreme Couft of the United States, to hold that our state courts have no jurisdiction to entertain…