The Schooner Jefferson Borden
District Court, D. Delaware
In Admiralty. In the matter of seamen’s wages, for which a libel has been filed and proceedings taken in this court against the schooner Jefferson Borden.
1Opinion of the Court
BradeoRd, D. J.
This ease was certified into this court by S. Bodmond Smith, a United States commissioner for this district, under tho provisions of section 4546 of the Bevised Statutes of the United States. I do not agree to the proposition of the counsel for the respondent, that the United States commissioner was guilty of usurpation of authority in hearing this case. While by the terms of the act of congress the district judge of the United States for the judicial district where the vessel is, is primarily charged with the duty of hearing these eases if his residence be within three miles…
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