Johnson v. Twenty-One Bales

VAN NESS, District Judge.

This case will first be considered as it is disclosed by the ship’s papers, and the preparatory examinations, and then will be examined the de-fence arising out of the further proof that was ordered and produced. It appears by the papers that the property in question was laden on board the ship Mary and Susan, at Liverpool, in England, some time in the month of July, 1812. That the Mary and Susan is an American registered vessel, and that she sailed from Liverpool on the 16th July, 1812, on a voyage to New York, with these goods on board, and under a charter party to…