Jennings v. Carson
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from tbe sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania, in a cause civil and maritime, in which Jennings was the libellant, and Carson, the respondent; the former claiming to be owner of the sloop George and cargo, captured, in the year 1778, by the American privateer Addition, commanded by Moses Griffin, of which the respondent, Carson, was part-owner, and which was libelled and condemned, on the 31st of October 1778, as lawful prize, by…
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This was an appeal from tbe sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania, in a cause civil and maritime, in which Jennings was the libellant, and Carson, the respondent; the former claiming to be owner of the sloop George and cargo, captured, in the year 1778, by the American privateer Addition, commanded by Moses Griffin, of which the respondent, Carson, was part-owner, and which was libelled and condemned, on the 31st of October 1778, as lawful prize, by the court of admiralty for the state of New Jersey ; from which sentence of condemnation, there was an appeal to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.—The privateer Addition, cruising under a commission granted by the congress of these United States, during the war between this country and Great Britain, captured the sloop George, brought her into port and libelled her in the court of admiralty for the state of New Jersey, where she was condemned as lawful prize, by a sentence rendered on the 31st of October 1778, and ordered to be sold by the marshal. From this sentence, Richard D. Jennings, the owner, prayed an appeal, which, on the 23d of December 1780, came on to be heard, before the…
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