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Error to the Supreme Court of Alabama. The case was thus: The Constitution ordains that the judicial power of the United States shall exteud “to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.”
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Error to the Supreme Court of Alabama. The case was thus: The Constitution ordains that the judicial power of the United States shall exteud “to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.” Add the ninth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, provides that the District Courts of'the United States “ Shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, . ." saving tó suitors in all cases the right of a common law remedy, where the common law i-s competent to give it.” ' In this state .of Federal law, fundamental and statutory, the State of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Persons' furnishing materials or supplies for ships or vessels, within the State of Alabama, have a lien by the law of that State on the same for ali debts coutracted'by the master, owner, or consignee thereof for the work done,-and for the materials and supplies furnished, in preference to other-' debts due and owing from the owners of such ships or vessels. By the code of that State jt is also provided, under the title, “proceedings in admiralty,” that whenever any .steamboat or other water-craft shall receive on board, as a - common carrier, any goods or merchandise as freight, to be…
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