THE ST. NICHOLAS


14 U.S. 417 (1816)

1 Wheat. 417

The St. Nicholas. MEYER ET AL. Claimants.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 21, 1816.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Key and Harper, for the appellants and claimants, and by Pinkney and Charleton, for the respondents and captors.


JOHNSON, J., delivered the opinion of the court as follows:

This case presents itself in this court under a cloud of circumstances unusually threatening. There is scarcely wanting in it one of those characteristics by which courts of admiralty are led to the detection of neutral fraud. Whether we consider the persons who conduct the voyage, the original character of the vessel, the time and circumstances of the transfer, the trade she has since been engaged in, the...

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