# Hays v. the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Co.

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 10, 1855 · 58 U.S. 596

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9416581

## Case

- **Full name:** John C. Hays, Plaintiff in Error, v. the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 10, 1855
- **Citations:** 58 U.S. 596; 17 How. 596; 15 L. Ed. 254; 1854 U.S. LEXIS 545
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Campbell
- **Judges:** Nelson, Daniel, Campbell
- **Cited by:** 110 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Mr. Justice CAMPBELL.
I concur in the judgment. But I concur only in consequence of the facts stated in the declaration, and which" are admitted by the demurrer. The material fact is, that the vessels wrere in transitu, having no situs in California, nor permanent connections with its internal commerce.
Order. ,
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the .record from the district court of the United States for the northern district of California, and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and. adjudged by this court that the judgment of the said district court in this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed, with costs, and interest until paid, at the same rate per annum that similar judgments bear in the courts of the State of California.

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