Ex Parte Boyer

Citations

• 109 U.S. 629
• 3 S. Ct. 434
• 27 L. Ed. 1056
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1737

Syllabus

<p>Admiralty — Jurisdiction.</p> <p>The District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, as a court of admiralty, has jurisdiction of a suit in ram against a steam canal-boat, to recover damages caused by a collision between her and another canal-boat, while the two boats were navigating the Illinois and Lake Michigan canal, at a point about four miles from its Chicago end, and within the body of Cook county, Illinois, although the libellant’s boat was bound from one place in Illinois to another place in Illinois.</p>