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Waring Vs. Clarke

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1847

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  1. Manro Vs. Almeida US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1825
  2. Vattier Vs. Hinde US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1833
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  3. Hobart Vs. Drogan US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1836
  4. Montgomery Vs. Henry US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1780
  5. United States Vs. Coombs US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1838
  6. U.S. 441 (1847) U.S. Supreme Court Waring v. Clarke
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  7. U.S. 5 How. 441 441 (1847) Waring v. Clarke
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  8. this Honorable Court, of Thomas Clarke, late master of Steamer Luda, for himself and others, owners of said Steamer v. Steamer
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  9. same positions have been taken again by Mr. Ames and Mr. Whipple in the case of New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. Merchants'
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  10. in the controversy upon admiralty jurisdiction in England, without assenting to Mr. Justice Buller's remarks, in Smart v. Wolf
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  11. one case, and the revival of the other, for which the admiralty always contended, we will cite the case of Menetone v. Gibbons
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  12. in the other. We do not consider it an open question, but res adjudicata by this Court. In Peyroux v. Howard
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  13. a maritime service and to be performed on the sea or on tidewater. In the case of The Steamboat Orleans v. Phoebus
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  14. In United States v. Coombs
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  15. Chamberlain v. Chandler
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  16. partisans. Among the cases in point as to this, both long before and since our Revolution, one of them, Velthasen v. Ormsley
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  17. T.R. 315, happened in A.D., 1789, the very year the Constitution was adopted. See also Violet v. Blague
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  18. Bemis v. Janus
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  19. stand prominent, and their views seem today adopted by a portion of this Court. See the argument in De Lovio v. Boit
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  20. Judge Washington held, it is said, we must go to the general maritime law of the world, and not to England alone. Dain v. Sloop
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  21. Judge Washington in several instances took it for his guide, and commended it as the legal guide. In the United States v. Gill
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  22. and in Gaines v. Relf
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  23. See also Vattier v. Hinde
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  24. justified in doing it without a statute, because not done in England. 32 U. S. 7 Pet. 324. And in Hobart v. Drogan
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  25. This Court so decided in Robinson v. Campbell
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  26. and not by judicial construction, and they can rightfully have no force here till so made. United States v. Paul
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  27. laws of the land. Page 46 U. S. 478 Beside the forms of some of these commissions, referred to in De Lovio v. Boit
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  28. the instance side of the court, till a recent change, so as to preserve uniformity in the colonies and at home. Bains v. James
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  29. See also to this effect Montgomery v. Henry
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  30. before the Revolution in respect to the law concerning the locality of torts. The very first case of Quitteville v. Woodbury
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  31. conversion of a vessel and cargo, July 30, 1742, tried before George Cradock, deputy judge in admiralty, Farrington v. Dennis
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  32. But the most decisive of all is a case in A.D., 1780, in the High court of Appeals in Pennsylvania, Montgomery v. Henry
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  33. United States v. Betsey
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  34. appear to maintain a contrary doctrine. They are sometimes mere dicta, as the leading case of De Lovio v. Boit
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  35. having been a case of a contract and not a tort, or as in 1 Mason 96, that having occurred on the high seas. So Thomas v. Lane
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  36. Mason 380. Or they are cases cited, such as Montgomery v. Henry
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  37. Wheelan v. United
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  38. tort, they uniformly appear to have been committed on the high seas or without the body of a county and state. Burke v. Trevitt
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  39. Thomas v. Lane
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  40. Plummer v. Webb
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  41. Steele v. Thatcher
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  42. there may well be jurisdiction, as being not within the body of any county here. Page 46 U. S. 487 Thomas v. Lane
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  43. but only as offenses defined and punished by acts of Congress under the power to regulate commerce. United States v. Coombs
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  44. tidewaters of the Savannah River are within the jurisdiction of the admiralty as to collisions between boats. Bullock v. Steamboat
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  45. Baldw. 550-554. So in Adams v. Haffards
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  46. Pick. 130. See also the colonial case before cited from 1 U. S. 1 Dall. 53, Montgomery v. Henry
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  47. of the correctness of this limitation to matters on the ocean than the remarks of Chief Justice Jay, in Chisholm v. Georgia
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  48. law and admiralty power, and being obliged to make such an allegation in England in order to gain jurisdiction. Ross v. Walker
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  49. Ramsey v. Alleyne
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  50. Wheat. 638. So decided virtually in Montgomery v. Henry
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