Wyman v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Betsey, William Wyman, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about May 8, 1800, from Boston, Mass., bound for Demerara.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Betsey, William Wyman, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about May 8, 1800, from Boston, Mass., bound for Demerara. While peacefully pursuing her said voyage she was captured on the high seas, on or about the 17th day of June, 1800, by the French privateer Le Brilliant, Captain Rutz, sailing under the authority of the French Republic, and taken to Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, where both vessel and cai’go were, eleven days later, condemned as good prize and ordered to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The American schooner Betsey was condemned by the French tribunal of commerce, sitting at Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, in J une, 1800, after the abrogation of the treaty of 1778. Her nationality was shown by her register and other papers. Of the illegality of the condemnation of the vessel the court *260is without doubt. The question involved in the case relates to the condemnation of the cargo.
The Betsey carried a manifest showing of what the cargo consisted and that it was an innocent or commercial cargo, not contraband of war. She carried no document…
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