The Bermuda
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In admiralty. This was the last of the contested prize cases in this district. All the decrees appealed from were affirmed by the supreme court. In this case, the vessel, and the munitions of war composing part of her cargo, were long since condemned. These decrees of condemnation have recently been affirmed. [The Bermuda. 3 Wall. (70 U. S.) 514.] The following opinion of the district court applies to the residue of the cargo [condemned.]
1Opinion of the Court
CADWALADER, District Judge.
In this case the only question requiring serious consideration was whether further proof should be allowed. This question was more or less complicated with that of the ultimate destination of the cargo. The affirmance of the decrees condemning the vessel, and the munitions of war which composed part of her cargo, has enabled me to give, without the least difficulty, a decision as to the residue of the cargo consisting of general merchandize. I suspended the final disposition of this part of the case until the decision of the supreme court upon the appeal of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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