Keane v. Brig Gloucester
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the a-dmiralty of Pennsylvania [Case No. S,970], and after argument, Paca and Griffin, the presiding commissioners, delivered the following sentence.
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COURT [HOPKINSON, J.].
Two objections are made to the decree below. The first objection is, that a libel does not lie by the crew of a privateer, for their respective proportions of a prize. The second objection is, that the libellants, in this case, are not part of the privateer’s crew, nor captors, entitled to a proportion of the prize stated in their libel.
With regard to the first objection, we are of opinion, that a libel does lie, and that it is the proper and regular mode of redress: for, the commission of a privateer, according to the form established by congress, extends not…
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