The Pizarro
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the circuit court of the district of Georgia. The ship Pizarro, under Spanish colours, was captured on the 23d of July, 1814, by the private armed schooner Midas, Alexander Thompson, commander* on a voyage from Liverpool to Amelia island, and. brought into the port of Savannah for adjudication. Prize proceedings were instituted in the district court of Georgia against the ship and cargo,, and a claim was duly interposed by Messrs.
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Appeal from the circuit court of the district of Georgia. The ship Pizarro, under Spanish colours, was captured on the 23d of July, 1814, by the private armed schooner Midas, Alexander Thompson, commander* on a voyage from Liverpool to Amelia island, and. brought into the port of Savannah for adjudication. Prize proceedings were instituted in the district court of Georgia against the ship and cargo,, and a claim was duly interposed by Messrs. Hibberson and Yonge,. merchants, of Fernandina, Amelia Island^ for the ship and cargo, as their sole and exclusive property. Upon the final' hearing in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
A preliminary objection has been taken in the argument at bar to the regularity of the proceedings in this cause, and it is urged, with great earnestness and force, that the farther proof was not admissible, except under, an explicit order of the court for. this purpose; and that the conduct of the master arid supercargo-in the suppression of the documents of the Cargó, arid in prevaricating in their examination, has justty forfeited the claim which the owners might otherwise have to introduce the farther pr.
lne proceedings in the district court were certainly very irregular; and this court…
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