The Lucy
Supreme Court of the United States
Motion to dismiss an appeal from the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, condemning the schooner Lucy, the case being this: An act of Congress of 1803* prescribes the circumstances under which appeals are allowed from the District to the Circuit Courts, and from these last to this court.
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Motion to dismiss an appeal from the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, condemning the schooner Lucy, the case being this: An act of Congress of 1803* prescribes the circumstances under which appeals are allowed from the District to the Circuit Courts, and from these last to this court. This act being in force and governing the appeals mentioned, an act of February, 1847,† established the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, with the jurisdiction and powers of a District and Circuit Court of the United States; and appeals were allowed, from its decrees in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
At the time when the District Court for the Southern District of Florida was established, the act of 1803 † governed appeals from the District to the Circuit Courts, and from the Circuit Courts to this court. No appeal in admiralty could be taken directly from the District Court to this court, except when, as in the case of the Southern District of Florida, the District Court exercised the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court as well as that of the District Court.
If this state of the law had undergone no change at the date of the decree of…
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