Adams v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case. The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Nantasket, Asa Higgins, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about the 24th day of February, 1800, from the port of Boston, Mass., bound to St. Thomas.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case. The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The schooner Nantasket, Asa Higgins, master, sailed on a commercial voyage on or about the 24th day of February, 1800, from the port of Boston, Mass., bound to St. Thomas. While peacefully pursuing said voyage she was seized on the high seas on or about the 1st day of April, in the said year, by the French privateer Petite Victorieuse, Captain Decaen, and carried into Great Bay, in the island of St. Martin, and thereafter, on or about the 14th day of April, 1800, said vessel and cargo were…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
The Nantasket was condemned and confiscated at St. Bartholomew. The decree recites that upon an analysis of the papers it was found that the sea letter, being in contravention of the passport, did not follow the form prescribed by the model annexed to the treaty of 1778 and that the vessel for that reason was condemned. But this was after the abrogation of the treatjr of 1778. The alleged deficiencjr in the róle d’équipage was insufficient to authorize the decree, and the resultant condemnation was therefore illegal.
The first question that arises relates to the ownership of the vessel. It is…
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