Supreme Court of the United States, 1812

Hawthorne, Clamn't. of Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. United States

Hawthorne, Clamn't. of Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 20, 1812
11 U.S. 107; 7 Cranch 107 (United States Reports)

Hawthorne, Clamn't. of Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. United States

Opinion

11 U.S. 107 (1812)
7 Cranch 107

HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNE
v.
THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 20, 1812.

Present ... . . All the Judges.

*108 HARE, Moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record.

MARSHALL, Ch. J.

What prevents you from producing the witnesses here, or taking their depositions de novo.

HARE, Suggested a doubt, whether cases for violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction.

However, on a subsequent day he moved for, and obtained a commission to take the depositions of witnesses at New Orleans, to be used on the trial in this Court, at the next term.

A like commission was granted in the case of Williams and Armroyd, at this term.

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