Sise v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court. I. The ship Apollo, John Walker, master, sailed on a commercial voyage from Norfolk, Ya., on or about the 18th day of August, 1798, bound for Falmouth. Whiile pursuing her said voyage she was captured on the high seas by the French privateer L’Aventure, of Bordeaux, Capt.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court. I. The ship Apollo, John Walker, master, sailed on a commercial voyage from Norfolk, Ya., on or about the 18th day of August, 1798, bound for Falmouth. Whiile pursuing her said voyage she was captured on the high seas by the French privateer L’Aventure, of Bordeaux, Capt. Jacques Conte, owner, and carried into the port of Rivadeo, Spain, where she and her cargo were condemned by the French vice-consul holding a prize court at Corunna, Spain, on the 13th day of October, 1798. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
This action is prosecuted under the act of January 29,1885 (23 Stat. L., 283), known as the French spoliation act, the first, or jurisdictional, section of which reads:
“Be it enacted, etc. (section 1), That such citizens of the United States, or their legal representatives, as had valid claims to indemnity upon the French Government arising out of illegal captures, detentions, seizures, condemnations, and confiscations prior to the ratification of the convention between the United States and the French Republic concluded on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred, the ratifications…
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