Duvall v. United States

The brig Sally, whereof John Beaty was master, sailed on a commercial voyage from Baltimore documented for and with instructions to land at St. Bartholomew, a Swedish island. The vessel was seized to the leeward of Antigua by *142a French privateer, taken as good prize to the tribunal of commerce sitting at Basse-Terre, and by the prize court condemned with its cargo. Under the act of January 20, 1885, 23 Stat.L., 283, the present proceeding was instituted against the United States for what is now claimed to be an illegal condemnation. The cargo of the brig consisted of 2,604 bushels of corn,…