Stewart v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Pejjorter-h statement of the casé: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner John Eason, John Cowper, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about July 15, 1798, bound from Norfolk, Va., to Kingston, in the island of Jamaica.
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The Pejjorter-h statement of the casé: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner John Eason, John Cowper, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about July 15, 1798, bound from Norfolk, Va., to Kingston, in the island of Jamaica. While peacefully pursuing said voyage she was captured on the high seas on or about the 1st day of August, 1798, by the French privateer called La Liberte, Captain Brard, and taken into Porte de Paix, and on or about August 14 of that same year both vessel and cargo were condemned and sold by the French prize tribunal,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelijg, J.
The claims in these cases arose out of the treaty of September 30, 1800, between the .Republic of France and the United States (Public Ti'eaties of the United States, p. 225), and are prosecuted under the act of January 20, 1885 (23 Stat. L., 283), known as the French spoliation act, whereby jurisdiction is conferred upon the court to find the facts in relation to the validity of claims of citizens of the United States to indemnity upon the French Government arising out of captures, detentions, seizures, condemnations, and confiscations prior to the convention between the two countries…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hooper v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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