Legal Opinion
The Ella B.
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided July 15, 1885PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
This is an action to recover seaman’s wages. The defenses are, want of jurisdiction and payment. The Ella B. is a tug of less than five tons burden. Her chief occupation has been, and is, the towing of canal-boats and other small craft about the harbor of Buffalo and the waters adjacent thereto. She has occasionally, in pursuing her vocation, been out upon Lake Erie and the Niagara river. Since the act of August 5, 1882, (22 St. at Large, 300,) she has not been enrolled.
It is contended by the respondent that, because of her diminutive size and the restricted theater of her operations, she is…
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