United States v. Cornell Steamboat Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a petition under wbat is known as the Tucker Act, defining the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, to recover salvage upon the duties on 1,883 bags of sugar, cargo of the lighter Bangor.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a petition under wbat is known as the Tucker Act, defining the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, to recover salvage upon the duties on 1,883 bags of sugar, cargo of the lighter Bangor. The facts agreed upon and found by the court are substantially as follows: The Steamboat Company, a New York corporation, and owner of the steam tug R. G. Townsend, at great risk and peril to the tug, saved a certain lot of 1,883 bags of sugar on board of a lighter called the Bangor, in the waters of the port óf New York, which was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
• This is practically a libel in personam for the salvage of government property, viz., of $6,000 duties collected by the Government upon a cargo of sugar saved from loss by.fire, while on board a lighter in the harbor of New York.
The claim is prosecuted under what is known as the Tucker Act, 24 Stat. 505; Compiled Stat. 1901, pp. 752, 753, the first section of which declares that “ the Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine ... all claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States, or any law of Congress, . . . or upon any contract, express or implied, with the…
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