The Experiment
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of Massachusetts, affirming the deci’ee of the district court of Maine, by which the sloop Experiment and cargo were condemned to the United States, as having been col-lusively captured by *the private armed schooner Fly. The facts (so far as necessary) are stated in the opinion of this court.
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Appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of Massachusetts, affirming the deci’ee of the district court of Maine, by which the sloop Experiment and cargo were condemned to the United States, as having been col-lusively captured by *the private armed schooner Fly. The facts (so far as necessary) are stated in the opinion of this court. February 11th. argued, that this case was distinguishable in its circumstances from that of The George, 1 Wheat. 408, 2 Ibid. 278, captui-ed by the same privateer, and adjudged by this court to be a collusive capture. argued upon the facts, with great…
1Opinion of the Court
Stoby, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. —This is a prize cause, brought by appeal from the circuit court of Massachusetts, affirming, pro formd, the decree of the district court of Maine. The sloop Experiment and cargo are confessedly British property, and were captured by the privateer Fly, during the late war, and brought into port, and proceeded against by the captors in the proper court, for the purpose of being adjudged lawful prize. Ho claim was filed in behalf of the captured ; but the United States interposed a claim, upon the ground, that the capture was fraudulent and…
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- The GeorgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1816
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