Zane v. The President
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was an appeal from the district court, where the appellant filed a petition praying to be paid the sum of 8408.10 cents, due to him for a certain number of water casks, and two barrels of vinegar, furnished the brig President, at Baltimore, where she then lay, in October, 1821. as part of her outfits.
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This was an appeal from the district court, where the appellant filed a petition praying to be paid the sum of 8408.10 cents, due to him for a certain number of water casks, and two barrels of vinegar, furnished the brig President, at Baltimore, where she then lay, in October, 1821. as part of her outfits. The brig having performed a voyage from Baltimore, after the above articles were furnished, returned the following year to the port of Philadelphia, where she was libelled for sailors’ wages, and sold under a sentence of the district court. The petition is, to be paid out of the surplus of…
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice,
(after stating the case as above). That this is a case of maritime contract, of which the admiralty has jurisdiction, is not disputed by the counsel for the appellee. Although it was made at laud, infra corpus comitatus, yet the subject matter of it concerned the navigation of the sea, and it is consequently maritime in its nature. This point, if it were not conceded, is conclusively settled by the following cases: The General Smith, 4 Wheat [17 U. S.] 438; The Aurora, 1 Wheat. [14 U. S.] 96; The Jerusalem [Case No. 7,294]; Gardner v. The New Jersey [Id. 5,233];…
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