Legal Opinion · Dissent

Brown v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1814Published

This was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court of Massachusetts, which condemned 550 tons of pine timber, claimed by Armitz Brown, the appellant. (Present, all the judges.)

1DissentStory, J.

(dissenting.) — In this case, I have the misfortune to differ in opinion from my brethren ; and as the grounds of the decree were fully stated in an opinion delivered in the court below, I shall make no apology for reading it in this place.

“ This is a prize allegation filed by the district-attorney, in behalf of the United States, and of John Delano, against 550 tons of pine timber, part of the cargo of the American ship Emulous, which was seized as enemies’ property, about the 5th day of April 1813, after the same had been discharged from said ship, and while afloat in a creek or dock at New…

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