The Appam
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suits by British and African Steam Navigation Company, Limited, against the steamship Appam, and by Henry G. Harrison, master, against the cargo of the steamship Appam to recover possession of vessel and cargo. Decree for libelants. These are suits in admiralty, brought respectively by the owner and master, to recover possession of the British steamship Appam, now lying at Newport News, Va., and her cargo.
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In Admiralty. Suits by British and African Steam Navigation Company, Limited, against the steamship Appam, and by Henry G. Harrison, master, against the cargo of the steamship Appam to recover possession of vessel and cargo. Decree for libelants. These are suits in admiralty, brought respectively by the owner and master, to recover possession of the British steamship Appam, now lying at Newport News, Va., and her cargo. On the 15th of January, 1916, about 3 o’clock tn the afternoon, daring the existence of a state of war between the Empires of Great Britain and Germany, the steamship Appam…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddirr, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). From this brief summary of the facts, it will be seen that the question for consideration is whether the vessel and her cargo, belonging to a subject of Great Britain, captured by a cruiser of the German Empire, upon the high seas, during the existence of war between the two countries, can be brought by a prize master and crew into the waters of the United States, for the purpose of being there laid up.
The libelants earnestly urge that this cannot bé done, and that the coming in, as well as the insistence upon the right' of asylum under the circumstances of…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- The Paquete HabanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- The Santissima Trinidad.Supreme Court of the United States · 1822
- Miller v. THE SHIP RESOLUTION, AND INGERSOLLSupreme Court of the United States · 1781
- The Arrogante BarcelonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1822
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- The AppamDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1917