Brig Caroline v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of South Carolina, in a case of seizure lor violation of the acts of, Congress respecting the slave trade.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of South Carolina, in a case of seizure lor violation of the acts of, Congress respecting the slave trade. The libel was in the words following; , rt «At a special district Court for South Carolina district, Be it remembered, That on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and the United States of America, by Parker, tlr ir attorney for the district aforesaid, came here into Court anti gave Thomas Bee, esq. judge of the said Court, to understand and be informed that on the day of they, the said United States, by their proper…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court, after taking time to consider, directed the following sentence to be entered.
“ This cause came oh to be heard on the transcript « of the record and was argued by counsel, on consideration whereof, it is the opinion .of the Court, that the «libel is too imperfectly drawn, p found a sentence of con- *< demnation thereon. The sentence of the said Circuit « Court is therefore reversed, and the. couse remanded « to the said Circuit Court, with directions to admit thp “ libel to be amended.”
The same point was .also decided at this term, in the cases of- the schooner Hoppet — the schooner…
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