Buchanan v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: 1. The brig Freemason, whereof George Bunker was then master, sailed on a commercial voyage June 7, 1797, from Baltimore, Md., bound to Bremen. While peacefully pursuing said voyage she was seized on the high seas on or about July 15, 1797, by the French privateer Dragon, Capt. Jean Eude, and conducted to the port of Paimpol, in France.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: 1. The brig Freemason, whereof George Bunker was then master, sailed on a commercial voyage June 7, 1797, from Baltimore, Md., bound to Bremen. While peacefully pursuing said voyage she was seized on the high seas on or about July 15, 1797, by the French privateer Dragon, Capt. Jean Eude, and conducted to the port of Paimpol, in France. On August 14, 1797, said vessel and cargo were condemned for the benefit of the captors by the Tribunal of Commerce sitting at Paimpol, and on appeal also by…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On July 15, 1797, the brig Freemason, George Bunker, master, while sailing on a peaceful commercial voyage from Baltimore to Bremen, was captured by the French privateer Dragon, Capt. Jean Eudes, and taken to the port of Paim-pol, France, where, on August 14, 1797, the vessel and cargo were condemned for the benefit of the captors by the tribunal of commerce sitting at Piampol on the ground that the sea *559letter or passport on board the vessel was not in conformity with the treaty between France and the United States of February 6, 1778, and…
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