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THE PETERHOFF

72 U.S. 28 (____)

5 Wall. 28

THE PETERHOFF.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Coffey, special counsel, and Mr. Ashton, Assistant A.G., for the United States, and in support of the decree:

The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is of much interest. It was very thoroughly argued, and has been attentively considered.

The Peterhoff was captured near the island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, on the 25th of February, 1863, by the United States Steamship Vanderbilt. She was fully documented as a British merchant steamer, bound from London to Matamoras, in Mexico, but was seized...

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