The question which we are asked to decide — viz., whether such a case as this is one of admiralty cognizance, and is therefore exclusively within the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, and whether the statute of Missouri, which authorized the proceeding, is for that reason void, — is an interesting one, and if it had been raised and decided...
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