Ross v. Rittenhouse
Supreme Court of the United States
IN this cause a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court on a case stated. After argument, the Judges recapitulated the facts and arguments of counsel, and delivered their opinions feriatim in the following terms:
1Opinion of the Court
M'Kean, Chief ju stice:
This case is, in brief, as follows :—The British stoop Active had been captured as prize on the high seas, in September, 1778, and was brought into the port of Philadelphia, where the was libelled in the Court of Admiralty of the State, held before George Ross, Esq. the then Judge, on the 18th day of the same month. The four persons, for whose use this action is brought, claimed the whole vessel and cargo, as their exclusive prize; but Thomas Huston, master of the brig Convention, a vessel of war belonging to the State of Pennsylvania, claimed a moiety for the States,…
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