McDonough v. Dannery
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was a writ of error to remove the proceedings and decree from the Circuit'Court, for the Diftriit of Maf-fa.bufetts; and, the record being returned, exhibited the following fa& :—On the 4th oí.
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THIS was a writ of error to remove the proceedings and decree from the Circuit'Court, for the Diftriit of Maf-fa.bufetts; and, the record being returned, exhibited the following fa& :—On the 4th oí. November, 1794, the owners and crew of-the .fhip George, filed a libel in the üiftriét Court of Majfachüfetts, in which they fet forth, • -That the faid fhip George was an American veifel, owned and navigated by American -citizens, loaded with a very valuable cargo, principally on freiaht, and bound from Virginia for Rotterdam; and that ,on the fecond day of. October laff, on the high ftas, in…
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The Libellants have prayed, that the whole of the ihip and cargo' ihould be decreed to their ufe. There have been times in the hiftoryof nations, in whichvef-fel and goods, left by ncceffity on the high feas, have been decreed the property of me finders; and where wrecks .on the ihore have be.en with-held from the original proprietors, by. the fovereigns of the country, or fome great man, on whofe lands they have happened to be caff: Butin very" early times, they have, in both cafes, been copfidered as the .property of the original-iowner. Several of the Roman Emperors made…
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