BRIG STRUGGLE v. U. STATES


13 U.S. 71 (1815)

9 Cranch 71

BRIG STRUGGLE (Thomas Leigh, Claimant.) v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 18, 1815.


LIVINGSTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:

This was an information, in the District Court of Massachusetts, against the brigantine Struggle for the violation of the act of Congress of the 28th of June, 1809, in departing from Portsmouth, in the United States, with a cargo of domestic growth and manufacture, bound to a foreign port with which commercial intercourse was not then permitted.

The libel further states that the vessel arrived...

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