The Robert W. Parsons

Citations

• 191 U.S. 17
• 48 L. Ed. 73
• 24 S. Ct. 8
• 1903 U.S. LEXIS 1495

Syllabus

<p>1. Although the Erie Canal is wholly within the state of New York, it connects navigable waters and is a great highway of commerce between ports in different states and foreign countries, and is, therefore, a navigable water of the United States within the legitimate scope of the admiralty jurisdiction of the courts of the United States.</p> <p>2. The enforcement of a lien in rem for repairs made in a port of the State to which it belongs to a canal boat engaged in traffic on the Erie Canal and the Hudson River is wholly within the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts and such lien cannot he enforced by any proceeding in rem in the courts of the State of New York.</p> <p>3. The contract for making such repairs is a maritime contract and its nature as such is not affected by the fact that the repairs were made in a dry dock or by the fact</p> <p>4. That the canal boat was engaged in traffic wholly within the State of New York. The Belfast, 7 Wall. 624,</p>