Dragon v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are claimant and surety on a $1,000 stipulation for the release of the gas screw Lucky Lindy to her owner. The decree from which they appeal adjudged the Lindy forfeit to the United States for statutory violations, and that appellants pay the $1,000 they had stipulated for. Appellants do not'claim here that the Lindy was without guilt. They claim that because she was first seized by the Collector in Franicovich’s Canal,1 which they say is not a public navigable water of the United States, that the court, as a court of admiralty, was without jurisdiction to…