United States v. Brigantine Mars
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court of Massacdusetts district, which affirmed the sentence of the district court, restoring the brig to the claimants.
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This was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court of Massacdusetts district, which affirmed the sentence of the district court, restoring the brig to the claimants. An information was filed against the brig Mars, for a breach of the act of 28th of June 1800 (entitled “ an act to amend and continue in foice certain parts of the act, entitled an act to interdict the commercial intei course,” &c.), in departing from port without having given bond according to the 3d section of the act, which provides, that “ if any ship or vessel shall, contrary to the provisions of this section, depart…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court, as follows : — This case depends upon the principle established in the case against the coffee, the Bohlens, claimants, (a) *The decision, as in that case, was founded r*. 1 „ upon the ground of a sale to a bond fide purchaser, without notice. *- The decree of the circuit court of Massachusetts district, in this case, is, therefore, reversed, and the brigantine Mars adjudged forfeited to the United States.
Decree reversed.(a)
The case of the United States v. 1960 Bags of Coffee, ante, p. 898.
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