Devoe Manufacturing Company

Citations

• 108 U.S. 401
• 2 S. Ct. 894
• 27 L. Ed. 764
• 1883 U.S. LEXIS 1051

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction of District Courts — New Jersey — New York — State Boundaries.</p> <p>1. The District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction of a suit in admiralty, in personam, against a New York corporation, where it acquires such jurisdiction by the seizure, under process of attachment, of á vessel belonging to such corporation, when such vessel is afloat in the Kill van Kull, between Staten Island and New Jersey, at the end of the dock at Bayonne, New Jersey, at a place at least 30Ó feet below highrwater mark, and nearly the same distance below low-water mark, and is fastened to said dock by means of a line 'running from the vessel and attached to spiles on the dock.</p> <p>2. A vessel so situated is within the territorial limits of the State of New Jersey and of the District of New Jersey, and is not within the territorial limits of the State of New York, or of the Eastern District of New York.</p> <p>3. The subject-matter of the dispute as to boundary between New York and New Jersey explained, and the settlement as to the same made by the agreement of September 16th, 1833, between the two States, as set forth in, and consented to by, the act of Congress of June 28th, 1834 (chap. 126, 4 Stat. 708), interpreted.</p> <p>4. When. Congress enacts that a judicial district shall consist of a State, the boundaries of the district vary afterwards as those of the State vary.</p>