The Brig Concord, Taylor, Master
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court, affirming that.of the .District Court, whicji re" stored 1o the Claimants,, neutral Spanish merchants at Teneriffe, 20 pipes of -wine, part of the cargo of the British brig Concord, captured by the American privateer Marengo, in August, 1812, without payment of duties; although the same had been,- by consent of proctors for the parties, sold under an order of. the Court. The cause being submitted without argument;
1Opinion of the CourtStory, J.
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This is the ,case ot a stnpment made by' a neutral house on board of a British ship which was captured, on a voyage fr,om Teneriffe to London, by the private armed ship Marengo, and brought into the port of New York for adjudication. Pending the prize proceedings, the goods were sold by an interlocutory order of the District Court, and the proceeds brought into the registry. Upon the . hearing, the property was decreed to be restored to the claimants without payment of duties ; and this decree was afterwards affirmed in the Circuit Court. The cause has been brought, by appeal, to this…
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