Swearingen v. Steamboat Lynx
Supreme Court of Missouri
EBROR TO ST. LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. This was a demand under the statute. The plaintiffs alleged that they were owners of the steamboat Ohio, and that on the 5th day of April, 1845, as the steamboat Ohio was ascending the Mississippi riyer, and had got nearly opposite Grafton, a town in Illinois, on said river, the steamboat Lynx was through the carelessness, remissness and negligence of her officers and crew, propelled against the steamboat Ohio, which last mentioned boat was…
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EBROR TO ST. LOUIS CIRCUIT COURT. This was a demand under the statute. The plaintiffs alleged that they were owners of the steamboat Ohio, and that on the 5th day of April, 1845, as the steamboat Ohio was ascending the Mississippi riyer, and had got nearly opposite Grafton, a town in Illinois, on said river, the steamboat Lynx was through the carelessness, remissness and negligence of her officers and crew, propelled against the steamboat Ohio, which last mentioned boat was thereby damaged to the amount of three hundred and twenty-five dollars. The general issue-was pleaded. At the trial the…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
The collision which occasioned this suit took place in a portion of the Mississippi river forming the boundary between this State and Illinois, and the question of fact submitted to the jury was whether it occurred upon the east or west side of the line which constitutes the middle of the main channel of that river, the court declaring the law to be against any jurisdiction over the case, if it happened on the east of said channel. The Constitution of this State has fixed the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river as our eastern boundary; but the 10th article declares “this State…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Bassett v. Massman Const. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
- Sanders v. St. Louis & New Orleans Anchor LineSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
- Cooley v. GoldenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1893