Sanders v. St. Louis & New Orleans Anchor Line
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis City Circuit Court. The state of Missouri has jurisdiction and the laws of the state have their operation over the whole Mississippi river, from bank to bank thereof,- so far as the same forms a common boundary between said state and the state of Illinois. Swearingen v. Steamboat, 13 Mo. 519. (1) The Illinois enabling act, April 18, 1818, gives “the middle of the Mississippi” as its western boundary.
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Error to St. Louis City Circuit Court. The state of Missouri has jurisdiction and the laws of the state have their operation over the whole Mississippi river, from bank to bank thereof,- so far as the same forms a common boundary between said state and the state of Illinois. Swearingen v. Steamboat, 13 Mo. 519. (1) The Illinois enabling act, April 18, 1818, gives “the middle of the Mississippi” as its western boundary. And article one, of the Illinois constitution of 1870, adopts the same line as her western boundary. Hence the territorial jurisdiction of the state of Illinois extends to the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarclay, J.
The petition alleges that the minor son of one of plaintiffs was drowned, while in defendant’s employ as a deck-hand on one of its steamboats, on the Mississippi river, between Illinois and Missouri, east of the main channel, while the boat was at the Illinois shore ; that plaintiffs then were, and now are citizens of this state, and defendant is a Missouri corporation with its chief office in St. Louis ; that the boat was engaged in navigating the river as a carrier of freight and passengers and that the death complained of was caused by certain negligence on the part of defendant.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- State of Iowa v. MullenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1872
- Swearingen v. Steamboat LynxSupreme Court of Missouri · 1850
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