The Rio Grande
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: ’ The Judiciary Act as amended by an act of 1808 gives appeals to this court from the Circuit Courts in admiralty causes, “ where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of $2000, exclusive of costs.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: ’ The Judiciary Act as amended by an act of 1808 gives appeals to this court from the Circuit Courts in admiralty causes, “ where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of $2000, exclusive of costs.” These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain material-men, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the District Court- for the said district.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Separate libels were filed by the appellees, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, against the steamboat Rio Grande, to enforce the payment of certain claims made by those parties against the steamboat for materials furnished for repairs and for necessary supplies, which it is alleged constituted a maritime lien upon the steamboat. Process was issued and served and the parties appeared and were heard, and the decree states that the court ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the claims contained in the libels in this cause, do not constitute such a…
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- The Rio GrandeSupreme Court of the United States · 1874