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SPEAR v. PLACE

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52 U.S. 522 (1851)

11 How. 522

13 L.Ed. 796

ARTHUR SPEAR, CLAIMANT OF THE SCHOONER LUCY ANN AND CARGO, APPELLANT, v. HENRY PLACE, LIBELLANT, FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 11, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Walker, for the appellants, and Mr. Coxe, for the appellee.

Mr. Coxe raised the question of jurisdiction as follows.

Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

A libel was filed in the District Court of Texas, December 22d, 1848, by Place, as master of the steamship Globe, and four others, as owners. It was in rem against the schooner Lucy Ann, her tackle and cargo, on a claim for salvage.

The material averments were, that the schooner on the 18th of that month, in a fog, got ashore on the north breakers of the bar at the entrance of the port of Galveston...

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