Patton v. Nicholson

16 U.S. 96 (____)

3 Wheat. 96

PATTON

v.

NICHOLSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 19th, 1818. Swann, for the plaintiff.

*MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

That the [*207 use of a license or pass from the enemy, by a citizen, being unlawful, one citizen had no right to purchase of, or sell to, another, such a license or pass, to be used on board an American vessel.

Judgment affirmed.[(a)]

NOTES

[(a)] In the several cases, during the late war, of The Julia, 8 Cranch 181; The Aurora, Id. 203; The Hiram, Id. 444; s.c. 1 Wheat. 440, and The Ariadne, 2 Id. 143, the court determined,…