The Hiram
Supreme Court of the United States
Appear from the circuit ccnirt for the district of Massachusetts. This Was a vessel laden with flour, and bound from Baltimore, to Lisbon, captured, and finally condemned by this court at February term, 2814, for sailing under a license from the enemy. The present case was that-of the claimants of a greater part of the cargo.
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Appear from the circuit ccnirt for the district of Massachusetts. This Was a vessel laden with flour, and bound from Baltimore, to Lisbon, captured, and finally condemned by this court at February term, 2814, for sailing under a license from the enemy. The present case was that-of the claimants of a greater part of the cargo. The .ship was owned, and the license procured, by Samuel G. Griffith, a citizen of the United States, Separate bills, of lading were at first signed by the master, one for each shipper, and separate letters of instruction were given to Palterson Hartshorne, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
When the claimants, in this case, applied to the circuit court to be let in to farther proof, for the purpose of showing their ignorance of the fact that the Hiram sailed under the protection of a British license, the judge of that court considered the agreement of the parties that these causes should depend on the fate of Griffith's claim, under which agreement the sentence, that would otherwise have been pronounced against them, was suspended until the decision ol the supreme court on that claim should, be made, as having the same validity…
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