Parish v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The schooner Good Intent, Hazard Powers, master, sailed on a commercial voyage January 14, 1800, from New London, Conn., bound for Martinique.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The schooner Good Intent, Hazard Powers, master, sailed on a commercial voyage January 14, 1800, from New London, Conn., bound for Martinique. While peacefully pursuing said voyage the vessel was seized on the high seas on the 28th of February, 1800, in latitude 15 north, longitude 59 west, by the French privateer L’Unique, Captain Jour-mard, and taken to Basse Terre, island of Guadeloupe, and was, with the cargo, there condemned. The decree of condemnation has not been produced by either…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case presents a peculiar combination of circumstances. On the one hand, it appears by the protest of the master of *265the ship that on the 28th of February, 1800, the schooner, carrying an innocent cargo and bound for a nonblockaded port, was seized on the high seas, in latitude 15° north, longitude 59° west; that she was carried into Basse Terre, where the master and crew were imprisoned until the 7th of March, when he, with his crew, was put on board a vessel bearing a flag of truce, which carried them to the island of St. Christopher. On…
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