Lacey v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe schooner Dolphin sailed on tbe 2d March, 1797, from Savannah for St. Bartholomew. On tbe 15th March she was captured by a French privateer.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbe case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe schooner Dolphin sailed on tbe 2d March, 1797, from Savannah for St. Bartholomew. On tbe 15th March she was captured by a French privateer. No reason was given for tbe capture further than that they were in want of such a cargo in Guadaloupe, and that they would give him more than be could get in St. Bartholomew; that they would pay him in sugar and coffee, and that tbe vessel would be no prize. Six men from tbe privateer were put on board tbe schooner and orders were given to take her…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
In this case the owners did not suffer a total loss of vessel and cargo. If they had been content with the decree of the vice-admiralty court at Antigua, awarding the recaptors salvage with costs, their loss would now be measured by the amount allowed by the court of admiralty, with perhaps damages for the delay and the additional voyage from Antigua to *278St. Bartholomew. But the owuers were not content, and appealed from the decree. The appellate court may have reversed it and awarded damages against the libellants with restoration of the vessel and cargo to the American owners. The counsel…
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