Bain v. Speedwell

Decided May Session, 1784.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1784-05

THIS was an appeal from the Admiralty of the State of Rhode Island, where the Schooner had been condemned as prize; and the record was submitted to the decision of the Court, without argument. On the 24th of May, 1784, GRIFFIN, READ, and LOWELL, the presiding Commissioners, delivered the following judgment:

Decided 1784-05

¶1THIS was an appeal from the Admiralty of the State of Rhode Island, where the Schooner had been condemned as prize; and the record was submitted to the decision of the Court, without argument. On the 24th of May, 1784, GRIFFIN, READ, and LOWELL, the presiding Commissioners, delivered the following judgment:

¶2BY THE COURT.

¶3It appearing, by the inspection of the record, that the Schooner in question, was captured from the British, since the operation of the preliminary articles of peace, (to wit, on the day of ) the condemnation cannot be sustained.

¶4Decree reversed.