Adams v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Maria, Thomas Gardiner master, sailed on a commercial voyage October 27, 1796, from New London, Conn., bound to Barbados, where she duly arrived, and sailed from thence to Tobago.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Maria, Thomas Gardiner master, sailed on a commercial voyage October 27, 1796, from New London, Conn., bound to Barbados, where she duly arrived, and sailed from thence to Tobago. That the said vessel went from Tobago to Martinique and Grenada, and while peacefully pursuing her return voyage from Grenada to Martinique was seized on the high seas by the French privateer Two Friends and carried to Guadeloupe, where both vessel and cargo were condemned by the French tribunal of…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The schooner Maria, Thomas Gardiner, master, the vessel in controversy, sailed from New London, Conn., October 27, 1796, on a commercial voyage bound to Barbados laden with a cargo of fish, lumber, and oxen, consigned to Messrs. Cru-den, Pollard & Stewart, of the latter place. Upon the arrival of the vessel at Barbados, the master, in his protest, says ‘ ‘ that he sailed by the orders of said house of Cruden, Pollard & Stewart for Tobago, where he discharged;” that the vessel sailed from thence to Martinique and Grenada, and that while pursuing her return voyage from Grenada to Martinique in…
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