The Ann Green
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[On appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] In admiralty. This was a proceeding on the prize side of the court, on an allegation of prize by the libellant, commander of the-privateer Gossamer, against the ship Ann Green and cargo. The ship and all the cargo, excepting fifty-six puncheons of rum, were-condemned as enemy’s property, no claim having been interposed therefor in the district court.
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[On appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] In admiralty. This was a proceeding on the prize side of the court, on an allegation of prize by the libellant, commander of the-privateer Gossamer, against the ship Ann Green and cargo. The ship and all the cargo, excepting fifty-six puncheons of rum, were-condemned as enemy’s property, no claim having been interposed therefor in the district court. The fifty-six puncheons of ram were claimed on account of Lewis Simond. Charles Wilkes, and Henry Cullen of New York, the asserted owners; and upon a full…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice,
after a recapitulation of the facts. Such are the facts disclosed in the evidence; and various objections have been argued, and ingeniously argued, which I shall now proceed to consider. In the first place it is contended, that the supplementary examination of Mr. Fish, and the accompanying letters, ought to be rejected. It is undoubtedly the practice of the prize courts to confine the first hearing of the cause to the papers found on board of the ship, and the preparatory examinations. If they acquit or condemn, there is, in general, an end of the cause. If they…
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