The Fanny
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the. Circuit Court of.Maryland. mi • p This was the case of a libel filed by the Consul-General of Portugal, on behalf of certain Portuguese subjects, owners of a number of hides which had been brought from St. Thomas to Baltimore in the brig Fanny.
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APPEAL from the. Circuit Court of.Maryland. mi • p This was the case of a libel filed by the Consul-General of Portugal, on behalf of certain Portuguese subjects, owners of a number of hides which had been brought from St. Thomas to Baltimore in the brig Fanny. The facts proved in the cause, which the Court considered tó be material, are the following: Some "time in the year 1817, Robert M. Goodwin, Clement Cathill, James Halsey, and John R. Mifflin, all of them citizens of the United States, and denominated “The American concern,” fitted out, at Buenos Ayres, a brig, called La Republi-cana,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Washington
The aboye case presents two questions for the consideration of this Court. . 1. Whether the Court below was correct, in restoring, to the Portuguese owner that part of the cargo of the Fanny which was restored? And, 2.. Whether the freight which was ordered by the Court to be paid to the owners of that vessel, ought, in whole or in part, to have been deducted from the appraised valúe of the hides ?
Upon the first question, it is tobe observed, that the facts above stated are incontestibly proved by the evidence in the cause; That the capturing vessel, the New Republicana, was built at Balti*668more…
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- La Nereyda. The Spanish Consul , LibellantSupreme Court of the United States · 1823
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