Hitchcock v. The St. Louis
District Court, D. Kentucky
In Admiralty. Libel by J. J. Hitchcock against the steamer St. Louis, owned by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, for wages. Decree for libelant for costs only.
1Opinion of the CourtBarr, J.
This is a libel in rem for the wages claimed by the libel-ant, and the questions raised by the claimant, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, are: (1) Has a court of admiralty jurisdiction of the subject? (2) If it has jurisdiction, is not the payment of the wages due libelant by the claimant defendant, by and under an order of a state court under a proceeding of garnishment, a bar to a recovery in this court ?
The steamer St. Louis is owned and used by the claimant defendant for the purpose of transporting its trains across the Mississippi river. It is really a steam…
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