Ex Parte Easton
Supreme Court of the United States
Petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York from exercising jurisdiction in a proceeding in rem to enforce an alleged lien for wharfage against the canal-boat or barge “ John M. Welch.” • As the facts in the case are fully stated in the opinion of the court, they are omitted here.
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Petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York from exercising jurisdiction in a proceeding in rem to enforce an alleged lien for wharfage against the canal-boat or barge “ John M. Welch.” • As the facts in the case are fully stated in the opinion of the court, they are omitted here. The District Court has no jurisdiction over .the barge “ John M. Welch,” because, 1, a contract of wharfage is not a maritime contract. The Genesee Chief, 12 How. 448; The Lottawanna, 21 Wall. 558; The Belfast, 7 id. 624; Insurance…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Judicial power under the Federal Constitution extends to all cases of admiralty and 'maritime jurisdiction, and it was doubtless the intention of Congress, by the ninth section of the Judiciary Act, to confer upon the District Court the exclusive original cognizance of all admiralty and maritime causes, the words of the act being in terms exactly, coextensive with the power conferred by the Constitution. ■ In order, therefore, to determine the limits of the admiralty jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to ascertain the 'true interpretation of the constitutional grant. On that subject three…
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