Schooner Hoppet & Cargo v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from the-sentence of the: trict Court for the district of Orleans, (exercising the jurisdiction of a Circuit Court of the United States,) condemning the schooner Hoppet and her cargo as forfeited to the United States under the act of congress of Mart h 1, 1809, vol. 9, p. 243, entitled “ An act to “ interdict the commercial intercourse, between the Uni- « ted States and Great Britain and France and their « dependencies, and for other purposes.”
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THIS was an appeal from the-sentence of the: trict Court for the district of Orleans, (exercising the jurisdiction of a Circuit Court of the United States,) condemning the schooner Hoppet and her cargo as forfeited to the United States under the act of congress of Mart h 1, 1809, vol. 9, p. 243, entitled “ An act to “ interdict the commercial intercourse, between the Uni- « ted States and Great Britain and France and their « dependencies, and for other purposes.” The 4th section of that act. makes it unlawful « to f'import into the United States or the territories there.«of, from any foreign…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:
This is an appeal from a sentence of the Court for the district of Orleans condemning the schooner Moppet and her cargo, as forfeited to the United States for violating the non-intercourse law.
In the district Court two informations were filed by the attorney for the United States, onq claiming the ship as being forfeited, and the other claiming the sargo. Objections have been made to each of these informations which will be separately considered.
The information against the vessel charges in substance, that while the act, entitled “…
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