American Steamship Co. v. Young
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county : Of January Term 1877, No. 223. Case by the American Steamship Company against John H. Young, in which a case was stated, in substance, as follows: Young is the United States Shipping Commissioner at Philadelphia. The plaintiff is a corporation and the owner of a line of steamships sailing between Philadelphia and Liverpool.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county : Of January Term 1877, No. 223. Case by the American Steamship Company against John H. Young, in which a case was stated, in substance, as follows: Young is the United States Shipping Commissioner at Philadelphia. The plaintiff is a corporation and the owner of a line of steamships sailing between Philadelphia and Liverpool. The men constituting the crews of the steamships of said corporation were shipped before said Young as shipping commissioner. For each round voyage, said commissioner has charged for each man shipped at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
*190The case stated in the nature of a special verdict fully presents the facts upon which the judgment of the court below was based. The questions submitted for determination were, whether, upon the admitted facts, the defendant, as shipping commissioner under the Act of Congress, was entitled to demand and receive from the company plaintiff a fee of $2 for reshipping members of the crew of its vessel for the next voyage, after the return of the same vessel to the port of Philadelphia; and, if not, whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover, in this suit, the fees so demanded and paid ?
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