Lestapies v. Ingraham
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county. March 10 and 11. — This was a feigned issue in the court below, directed to try the right of Adrian P. Destapies to recover the amount of his interest or proportion of $23,454 92, awarded to Honoré Fournier, the assignee of Anthony Daussat, by the commissioners under the treaty of July 4, 1831, between the United States of America and France, for said Daussat’s claim for his interest in the brig Fox, Captain Cullen,…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county. March 10 and 11. — This was a feigned issue in the court below, directed to try the right of Adrian P. Destapies to recover the amount of his interest or proportion of $23,454 92, awarded to Honoré Fournier, the assignee of Anthony Daussat, by the commissioners under the treaty of July 4, 1831, between the United States of America and France, for said Daussat’s claim for his interest in the brig Fox, Captain Cullen, which claim included one hundred and thirty bags of coffee, the property of said Destapies, the value of which was…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
It appears, that in the year 1809, Mr. Laussat, a citizen of the United States, shipped, in his own name, for the port of St. Sebastian, certain sugars and bags of coffee, a part of which belonged.io the plaintiff, a citizen of France; and that the property was seized and confiscated at that place by the authority of the French government. This action is brought to recover the plaintiff’s share of the compensation received for the spoliation, under the treaty of 1881, by the defendant’s predecessor in the trust created by Mr. Laussat for the benefit of his creditors. The treaty gave the right…
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