Ridgway v. Hays
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
Bill in Equity to restrain the defendants, Hays and others, from receiving, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the Treasurer, from paying to the defendants, the amount awarded to the assignees and representatives of Hays, under the French treaty of spoliations.
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Bill in Equity to restrain the defendants, Hays and others, from receiving, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the Treasurer, from paying to the defendants, the amount awarded to the assignees and representatives of Hays, under the French treaty of spoliations. The bill states, in substance, that in 1806, and 1807, the plaintiff was a merchant in Antwerp, in partnership with Louis J. Mertens, since deceased, under the firm of J. Bidgway, Mertens & Co. That the plaintiff was a native citizen of the United States, then residing in Antwerp, as commercial agent of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCranch, C. J.
*29The object of this bill is to enforce, specifically, a lien upon the defendant Hays’s proportion of the indemnity awarded by the commissioners for the French spoliation of the cargo of the ship Bordeaux Packet; and for that purpose, without stating the amount claimed by the plaintiff, as consignee, for commissions and charges on that cargo, it prays that the whole indemnity for the entire cargo may be paid to the plaintiff, so that he may, out of the same, pay himself, not only those commissions and charges, but the balance of his general account against the defendant Hays, (without stating…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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