JACKSON ET AL. v. STEAMBOAT MAGNOLIA


61 U.S. 296 (____)

20 How. 296

THOMAS JACKSON, WILLIAM HIGDON, AND ARCHIBALD OLDS, OWNERS OF THE STEAMBOAT WETUMPKA, LIBELLANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. THE STEAMBOAT MAGNOLIA, HER TACKLE, &C., WILLIAM F. JAMES, MASTER, &C.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued at the preceding term of this court upon printed arguments by Mr. Francis Lee Smith for the appellants, and Mr. Dargan for the appellees; also orally by Mr. Phillips for the appellees.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question presented for our consideration on this appeal is, whether the court below had jurisdiction.

The libel purports to be in a cause of collision, civil and maritime. It alleges that the steamboat Wetumpka, a vessel of three hundred tons burden, was on a voyage from New Orleans to the city of Montgomery, in Alabama; that while ascending the Alabama river, she was run into and sunk by the steamboat...

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