Edwards v. Elliott
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey; the case being thus: The Constitution ordains that— “The judicial power [of the United States] shall extend to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.”
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Error to the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey; the case being thus: The Constitution ordains that— “The judicial power [of the United States] shall extend to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.” And the Judiciary Act enacts: “Section 9. That the District Courts [of the United States] shall have exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction . . . saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it.” These provisions of organic and Federal statutory law being…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Nothing appears in the record to warrant the conclusion that any question re-examinable here was presented in the court of original jurisdiction, whether the proposition is tested by the declaration, the pleas filed by the defendant, the special verdict, or by the judgment, as all alike tend to show that the questions presented, examined, and decided were questions of local law. • Every suggestion of that kind, therefore, may be dismissed without further remark, as they arc utterly destitute of support.
Opposed to that statement is the suggestion in argument, that the presiding justice…
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- Brown v. SwannSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
- Brush v. RobbinsU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Michigan · 1844
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