Mygatt v. Knapp
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Admiralty. Libel by Beauregard Mygatt and Ellis Leas against the schooner Gilbert Knapp, for damages for breach of contract to unload cargo.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
Ln the noted ease of De Lovio v. Boit, 2 Gall. 398, an action in personam upon a marine policy of insurance, decided in 1815, that eminent jurist, Judge Story, delivered an elaborate opinion concerning the jurisdiction of the admiralty. In a masterly review of the decisions of the English common-law courts seeking to restrict that jurisdiction, he showed them to he irreconcilable with any just conception of the admiralty jurisdiction. He challenged the limitation applied by those courts that jurisdiction extended only to causes of action arising “from things done upon the sea,” and asserted…
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