Dutton v. Strong
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came before the Supreme Court upon a writ of error to' the District Court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin. It was, in its origin, an action of trespass on the case brought by II. Norton Strong and William II. Goodnowagainst Achas P. Dutton and Cyrus Hines. In 1855, Messrs.
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This case came before the Supreme Court upon a writ of error to' the District Court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin. It was, in its origin, an action of trespass on the case brought by II. Norton Strong and William II. Goodnowagainst Achas P. Dutton and Cyrus Hines. In 1855, Messrs. Dutton and Hines, the plaintiffs in error, owned a pier situated at Naeine, upon Lake Michigan, and extending into the lake, which, served the purposes both of a landing place for freight and for its stowage. This pier was private property, and although its owners, who were fonvarding merchants,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice CLIFFORD. *
This case comes before the court upon a writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin. It was an action of trespass ppon the case, and was instituted in the court below, on the seventh day of July, 1856, by the present defendants. They were the owners of a certain vessel called the Homer Ramsdell, and the plaintiffs in error,.who were the defendants in the original suit, were the owners and occupants of a certain bridge pier, situated at Racine, in the State of Michigan, southerly of the harbor at that place. Like other similar…
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