delivered the opinion of the Court, and cited the following *26authorities: Vattel, page 160, sec. 213, 218, 219, p. 160-1-2; Bruce v. Bruce, 2d Bos & Puller, 229, and note; The Venus, 8th Cranch, 279; Story’s Conflict of Laws, sec. 48, 49, 53, &c.; 1st Binney, 350, and note; Ennis v. Smith, 14th Howard, 428; Ex parte Thompson, 1 Wend., 46; Read v. Drake, decided by Judge W. P. Hill, in November, 1864; Remarks of Sec’y Marcy in the Koszta case, in Messages and Pub. Doc., 1854-5, part I, page 40-45; Murray v. The Charming Betsy, 1 & 2 Cranch, 143; Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, 370 and 394 to 405; 1 Black. Com., 366; Kilburn v. Bennett, 13 Metcalf, 20; Thorndike v. City of Boston, 1 Met., 247; 8 Louisiana, 337; 8 Pickering, 476; 5 Greenleaf, 266; Horne v. Horne, 9 Iredell Law R., 108; Leach v. Pillsbury, 15 New Hampshire, 138; Laneuvelle v. Anderson, Eng. Com. L. & Equity R., 22, 641; 2d Maine, 212 and 420, and 354; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass., 499; Green v. Windham, 13 Maine, 228; Ex parte John Luscher, decided at Austin Term, 1864; Bempde v. Johnston, 3 Vesey, p. 202; Hoskins v. Matthews, 35 Eng. Law and Equity R., 532; Johnson v. Beatie, 10 Clark and Fin., 139; Elbers v. United Ins. Co., 16 Johns, 133; Brown v. Smith, 11 Eng. Com. L. and Equity R., 9.

Judgment reversed, and applicant discharged.