The Diana
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from El, decree of the District Court for;the Southern District of Florida. The schooner Diana was captured, on the 26th of November, 1862, by vessels of'war of the United States, off Pass' Cavallo, on the coast of Texas, then in rebellion against the United States, and, for somé'time previously,-under blockade along the whole line of its coast, and taken-,to Key "West for adjudication.
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Appeal from El, decree of the District Court for;the Southern District of Florida. The schooner Diana was captured, on the 26th of November, 1862, by vessels of'war of the United States, off Pass' Cavallo, on the coast of Texas, then in rebellion against the United States, and, for somé'time previously,-under blockade along the whole line of its coast, and taken-,to Key "West for adjudication. A libel in prize was filed against both vessel and cargo, in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in December, 1862, to which the master of the vessel in¿erposéd a claim in behalf of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The schooner Diana was captured, in November, 1862, oft" Cavallo, near the entrance of Matagorda Bay, on the coast of Texas. According to her papers, she was oh a voyage from Campeachy, in Mexico, to Matamoras, at the mouth of the Rio Grande; but at the time of her capture she had been fourteen days at sea and had passed two hundred miles beyond her alleged port of destination. "We have no doubt' that she was then seeking to enter a blockaded port on the coast. The master states in his deposition that .the vessel, if she had not been captured, would have first entered the nearest convenient…
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