The Monte Allegre
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Maryland. The. appellant, Thomas Tenant, filed his petition on the 14th of November, 1821, in the Circuit.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Maryland. The. appellant, Thomas Tenant, filed his petition on the 14th of November, 1821, in the Circuit. Court for the Maryland District, setting forth that at a public sale of part of the. cargo of the ship Monte Allegre, under an interlocutory order of the District Court, in the case of Joaquim Jose Vasques, Consul-General of Portugal, against the ship Monte Allegre, and her cargo, he became the purchaser of six hundred and fifty-three se-roons of Brazil tobacco, part of said cargo, for which he paid to the Marshal of the District, under whose…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
Upon the argument in this Court, the counsel for the respondent abandoned the objection to. the jurisdiction of the Court. It becomes unnecessary, therefore, that we should notice:that question.
fit examining into the merits of the claim set up by the appellant, in his petition^ it ought to be borne in mind, that the Monte Allégre and her cargo' were illegally captured and brought within •the United States, and that judgment of restitu*641tion hás been awarded in favour of the original owners,. (7 Wheat. Rep. 520.) Granting the claim now set up, will be throwing upon the owners an additional…
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