Case Name: ISAIAH EMMONS and others, Plaintiffs, v. SYLVESTER A. WHEELER and others, Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1875-01
Citations: 10 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 545
Docket Number: 
Parties: ISAIAH EMMONS and others, Plaintiffs, v. SYLVESTER A. WHEELER and others, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 10
Pages: 545–545

Head Matter:
ISAIAH EMMONS and others, Plaintiffs, v. SYLVESTER A. WHEELER and others, Defendants.
Chapter 483, Laws of 1863 — canal boat is a vessel within meaning of-—Exceptions ordered to be hea/rd at the General Term—what will not be considered upon hearing of
A canal boat is a vessel within the meaning of chapter 483 of the Laws of 1863, providing for the collection of demands against ships and vessels.
Crawford v. Collins (45 Barb., 369) followed.
Upon the trial of this action, brought upon a bond given to release a canal boat from a warrant of attachment issued under the said act, the plaintiff was non-suited on the ground that a canal boat was not a vessel within the meaning of the act, and the exceptions were ordered to be heard in the first instance at the General Term. On the hearing at General Term, respondents insisted that the act was unconstitutional. Held, that, as the point was not taken in the answer or at the circuit, and as it was not presented by any of the exceptions, it must be deemed waived.
Where a case comes before the General Term on exceptions taken at the circuit, no questions can be passed upon, except those arising upon exceptions duly taken to some decision made by the circuit judge at the trial, or in the final disposition of the case.
Motion for a new trial, on exceptions ordered to be heard in the first instance at the General Term.
CooTc (& Fitzgerald, for the plaintiffs.
E. Thayer, for the defendants.
Bird v. The Steamboat Josephine, 80 N. Y., 19; Vose v. Cockroft, 44 id., 415.

Opinion:
Opinion by Smith, J.
Present — Mhllin, P. J., Smith and Gilbert, JJ.
Judgment reversed, and new trial granted, costs to abide event.