THE THOMAS GIBBONS, ROCKWELL, MASTER


12 U.S. 421 (1814)

8 Cranch 421

THE THOMAS GIBBONS, ROCKWELL, MASTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 16, 1814.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JONES, for the captors.

HARPER, contra.

MARSHALL, JOHNSON,


STORY, J. delivered the opinion of the Court.

The ship Thomas Gibbons, laden with a cargo of British manufactures, on account of British and American merchants, sailed from Liverpool, in Great Britain, on the 16th August, 1812, bound for Savannah, in Georgia, and was captured on the 12th of the ensuing October, on the high seas, off Tybee light-house, by the private armed...

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