The Buena Ventura
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. During the late war between the United States and Spain, and on May 21, 1898, the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida condemned the steamship Buena Yentura as lawful prize of war, on the ground “that the said steamship Buena Yentura was enemy’s property, and was upon the high seas and not in any port or place of the United States upon the outbreak of…
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. During the late war between the United States and Spain, and on May 21, 1898, the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida condemned the steamship Buena Yentura as lawful prize of war, on the ground “that the said steamship Buena Yentura was enemy’s property, and was upon the high seas and not in any port or place of the United States upon the outbreak of the war, and was liable to condemnation and seizure.” It was thereupon ordered that the vessel “be condemned and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The Buena Yentura was a Spanish merchant vessel in the peaceful prosecution of her voyage to Norfolk, Yirginia, from Ship Island, in the State of Mississippi, when, on the morning of April 22, 1898, she was captured as lawful prize of war, of the existence of which, up to the moment of capture, all her officers were ignorant. She was not violating any blockade, carried neither contraband of war nor any officer in the military or naval service of the enemy, nor any dispatch of or to the Spanish Government, and attempted no resistance when captured.
The facts, regarding this vessel place her…
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