Doane's Administrators v. Penhallow
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a foreign attachment, in which, and in two others against the same defendants, for the same cause, a motion was made to quash the writs. After argument, the President recapitulated the grounds of the motion and delivered the opinion of the court as follows :—
1Opinion of the Court
Shippen, President.
On the hearing of this motion, the plaintiffs were called upon to show their cause of action : they show that on the 17th of September 1783, a certain cause, wherein Elisha Doane was claimant and appellant, against the brigantine Susannah and her cargo, and John Pen-hallow and others, libellants and appellees, was tried in the court of appeals in cases of capture, established by congress, in the city of Philadelphia. And that it was there finally adjudged and decreed by the said court of appeals, that the sentence or decree, given by the inferior and superior courts of…
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