Legal Opinion
The Experiment
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 1, 1819PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Massachusetts. This was a question of collusive capture.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
Original evidence and depositions taken on the standing interrogatories, may be invoked from one prize cause into another. But depositions taken as farther proof in one cause, cannot be used in another.
Motion refused. a
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But in other respects, cases of collusive and joint captures form an exception to the general rules of evidence in prize causes. In cases of this nature, the usual simplicity of the prize proceedings is departed from, because the standing interrogatories are more peculiarly directed to the question of prize or no prize, as between the captor and captured, and are not adapted…
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