United States v. Johnson

GILES, District Judge.

This is a libel filed on behalf of the United States to forfeit the schooner F. W. Johnson as a prize of war. The bill alleges that the said schooner was captured by a vessel of war of the United States, about twenty-five miles to the southward of Cape Henry, in the Atlantic Ocean, having on board at the time about twenty-eight tons of railroad iron;' that the said cargo of railroad iron was saved by the said schooner for the use of the Norwegian bark Albion, which had been cast away about the 1st of May last, at the spot where the capture was made; that the said…