Lucy H.
District Court, N.D. Florida
In Admiralty. Libel of information and seizure maritime by the United States against the American schooner Lucy II. for violation of neutrality laws. On exceptions to libel. On September 14, 1915, the American schooner Lucy H. then in the port of Pensacola, Fla., in command of one H. B. Snell, master, took on board, besides a crew of 9 men and 15 Mexicans, a cargo of 162 rifles and 25,000 rounds of ammunition.
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In Admiralty. Libel of information and seizure maritime by the United States against the American schooner Lucy II. for violation of neutrality laws. On exceptions to libel. On September 14, 1915, the American schooner Lucy H. then in the port of Pensacola, Fla., in command of one H. B. Snell, master, took on board, besides a crew of 9 men and 15 Mexicans, a cargo of 162 rifles and 25,000 rounds of ammunition. Whereupon the vessel proceeded to Key West, Fla., arriving there about the last of the month. Here two more eases of rifles and a quantity of stores were added to the cargo. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtSheppard, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The American schooner Lucy H. was seized by the United States on a libel of information with 36 articles, charging a violation of the Neutrality Act as finally amended April 20, 1818 and embodied in section 11 of the Penal Code of 1910 (Comp. St. 1913, § 10175), the pertinent provisions of which read;
“Whoever, within the territory * * * of the United States fits out and arms * * * any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, dis*612trict, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities…
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- Schaap v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1914
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