Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The case is stated in the opinion. Congress has power to amend or create the maritime law which shall prevail throughout the country (Butler v. Boston & Savannah S. S. Co., 130 U. S. 527; In re Garnetty 141 U. S. 1, 14), but that is the limit of its power.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The case is stated in the opinion. Congress has power to amend or create the maritime law which shall prevail throughout the country (Butler v. Boston & Savannah S. S. Co., 130 U. S. 527; In re Garnetty 141 U. S. 1, 14), but that is the limit of its power. It cannot delegate this power to the States, nor authorize the enactment of laws that will destroy the uniformity of the maritime law. The Lottawanna, 21 Wall. 558; Sudden & Christenson v. Industrial Accident Comm., 188 Pac. Rep. 803. From…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
While employed by Knickerbocker Ice Company as bargeman and doing work of a maritime nature, William M. Stewart fell into the Hudson River and drowned— August 3, 1918. His widow, defendant in error, claimed under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of New York; the Industrial Commission granted an award against the Company for her and the minor children; arid both Ap*156pellate Division and the Court of Appeals approved it. 226 N. Y. 302. The latter concluded that the reasons which constrained us to hold the Compensation Law inapplicable to an employee engaged in maritime work— Southern Pacific Co. v.…
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