The Bermuda
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from a decree made by tbe District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, regarding the steamship Bermuda and her cargo, captured during the rebellion bj the government war-vessel Mercedita, and sent into Phila delphia, and libelled there and proceeded on in prize.
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Appeal from a decree made by tbe District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, regarding the steamship Bermuda and her cargo, captured during the rebellion bj the government war-vessel Mercedita, and sent into Phila delphia, and libelled there and proceeded on in prize. The allegations of the captors were, that the vessel was enemy’s property, and with her cargo — largely composed of munitions of war — had been intending, either directly or by transshipment, to break the blockade, then established by our government, of the southern coast, and that both she and her cargo were, on…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEE JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
These appeals were very fully and ably argued at the last term; and, because of the desire of the court to have all the aid that counsel could give in the examination of the important questions of fact, and law presented by the record, were ordered to be reargued at this term. Under this order they have been again thoroughly and exhaustively discussed, and have since received our most deliberate consideration.
The questions arising upon the ownership of the steamship, will first be disposed of.
She was built in 1861, on the eastern coast of…
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