Soper v. Manning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity alleging that the plaintiffs were the “ owners of the claims for the capture ” of the schooner Mermaid, at the time of her capture on the high seas by an insurgent cruiser; that “ judgment was rendered in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, at Washington, D. C., for the oil catch of the said schooner Mermaid, that is, the value of the oil on board at the time of her capture, to be received and distributed by the said owners according to law among the…
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Bill in equity alleging that the plaintiffs were the “ owners of the claims for the capture ” of the schooner Mermaid, at the time of her capture on the high seas by an insurgent cruiser; that “ judgment was rendered in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, at Washington, D. C., for the oil catch of the said schooner Mermaid, that is, the value of the oil on board at the time of her capture, to be received and distributed by the said owners according to law among the respective parties entitled thereto in their due proportion in the sum of $5,018.61 ”; that the Treasurer of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtD evens, J.
The bill sets forth that the plaintiffs are the owners of the claims for the capture of the schooner Mermaid, during the late civil war, and that a judgment for the sum of $5,018.61 was rendered in their favor in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, for the “ oil catch ” of the schooner, that is, the value of the oil on board of her at the time of capture, to be received and distributed by the said owners according to law among the respective parties entitled thereto in their due proportion; that the defendant Manning has received a Treasury draft for this sum on the Assistant…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- McConnell v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Iasigi v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
3Cited by2 opinions
- Soper v. ManningMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Davis v. FarwellSupreme Court of Vermont · 1907