Kostyshyn v. New Castle County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the constitutional grant of admiralty jurisdiction did not adopt the statutory and judicial rules limiting admiralty jurisdiction in England
• holding that the Seventh Amendment applies only to cases brought at common law, not those brought in admiralty
• a vessel \will be held responsible for all losses until it is proved that the collision was not the consequence [of a statutory fault]\
• a vessel “will be held responsible for all losses until it is proved that the collision was not the consequence [of a statutory fault]”
• \[W]e cannot see how [admiralty and maritime trials] are to be embraced in the [S]eventh [A]mendment of the [C]onstitution[.]\
• “[W]e cannot see how [admiralty and maritime trials] are to be embraced in the [S]eventh [A]mendment of the [C]onstitution[.]”

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