Reynolds v. Steamboat Favorite
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The complaint alleges in substance that the defendant is a steamboat, and used and employed by the masters, owners, &c., thereof, in carrying and transporting passengers and freight for hire as a regular business and public employment on the Mississippi River from St. Paul, Minnesota, to La Crosse, Wisconsin, &c., and has been so used and employed for more than three years last past, and is now lying at the port of St. Paul in said county, &c.; that one David R. Reynolds oh…
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The complaint alleges in substance that the defendant is a steamboat, and used and employed by the masters, owners, &c., thereof, in carrying and transporting passengers and freight for hire as a regular business and public employment on the Mississippi River from St. Paul, Minnesota, to La Crosse, Wisconsin, &c., and has been so used and employed for more than three years last past, and is now lying at the port of St. Paul in said county, &c.; that one David R. Reynolds oh the 23d day of. October, 1862, entered into a contract in writing with said defendant, in and by which the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court —
Wilson, C. J.
— It is now settled that the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States Courts extends to all fivers or waters navigable in fact from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden, Genesee Chief vs. Fitzhue, 12 How. U. S. Rep., 443; Fritz vs. Bull, Id., 466.
Sec. 2, of Art. 3, of the Constitution of the United States, provides that the judicial power of the United States extends to all cases of admiralty <;r maritime jurisdiction. In pursuance of this jmmsion Congress might vest in the' United States Courts exclusive jurisdiction of this class of. cases, but a grant…
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