The Nuestra Señora De Regla
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The steamer Nuestra Señora de Regla was built in New York for the claimant, a railroad company in Cuba, created by the laws of Spain. She was delivered to an agent of the claimant on the 6th of November, 1861, and sailed for Havana in command of a Spanish master.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The steamer Nuestra Señora de Regla was built in New York for the claimant, a railroad company in Cuba, created by the laws of Spain. She was delivered to an agent of the claimant on the 6th of November, 1861, and sailed for Havana in command of a Spanish master. She was a side-wheel steamer of about three hundred tons burden, built to ran on a ferry between Havana and a terminus of the railroad’ company’s 'railroad, On her way down the coast she went into Port Royal, and while there the quarter-master…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
After reciting the facts as above stated he continued :
That the steamer was not lawful prize or the subject of capture was expressly decided on the former appeal. It was also impliedly settled that the capturé ivas without probable cause, for it was said that the owner was undoubtedly entitled to a fair indemnity for the losses sustained, the only difficulty being as to the amount. These questions are, therefore, no longer open. Clark v. Keith, 106 U. S. 464; Supervisors v. Kennicott, 94 U. S. 499.
The' first of the remaining questions to be considered is whether a decree can be entered…
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- Porter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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