The Trenton
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. This was a libel for supplies and materials furnished at Cleveland, the home port of the vessel, in 1876, for which a lien was claimed under the law of the state of Ohio.
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In Admiralty. This was a libel for supplies and materials furnished at Cleveland, the home port of the vessel, in 1876, for which a lien was claimed under the law of the state of Ohio. The present owner of the schooner, appearing as claimant, pleaded in substance that in July, 1878, the libellants caused the vessel to be seized at Toronto, Ontario, by virtue of a warrant issued by the maritime court of Ontario, upon a petition filed by the libellants for the same cause of action for which their libel was filed in this court; that in August, 1878, one Michael Gallagher intervened with a claim…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, D. J.
The maritime court of Ontario was created by an act of parliament of the dominion of Canada, approved April 28, 1877, the object of which was “to establish a court of maritime jurisdiction in the province of Ontario.” The first section vested in the court, in very brief language, “such jurisdiction as is exercised by any existing British vice-admiralty court.” To ascertain what jurisdiction is exercised by the vice-admiralty courts of Great Britain, we are referred to an act of the imperial parliament known as “the vice-admiralty court’s act, 1863,” which is made applicable to all…
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