KNAPP, STOUT & COMPANY v. McCAFFREY

No. 263.

177 U.S. 638 (1900)

KNAPP, STOUT & CO. COMPANY v. McCAFFREY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1900.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles P. Wise for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles E. Kremer and Mr. Guy C. Scott for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants set up in their answers and insisted, both before the appellate court and the Supreme Court of Illinois, that, if plaintiff had any lien upon the raft at all for his towage services, it was a maritime lien, enforceable only in the District Court of the United States as a court of admiralty. This is the only Federal question...

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