Supreme Court of the United States, 1812

Hawthorne, of the Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. The United States

Hawthorne, of the Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. The United States
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 1, 1812 · Marshall
11 U.S. 107; 3 L. Ed. 284; 7 Cranch 107; 1812 U.S. LEXIS 372 (United States Reports)

Hawthorne, of the Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. The United States

Opinion

Marshall, Ch, J.

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

Hare, Suggested a doubt, whether cases fot1 violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction,

However, on a subsequent day he moved •for', and bbtained 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 Jlrmroyd, at this term.

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