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Hawthorne, Clamn't. of Brig Clarissa Claiborne v. United States

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Date filed: 1812-02-20
Citations: 11 U.S. 107, 7 Cranch 107
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11 U.S. 107 (1812)
7 Cranch 107

HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNE
v.
THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 20, 1812.

Present ... . . All the Judges.

*108 HARE, Moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record.

MARSHALL, Ch. J.

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

HARE, Suggested a doubt, whether cases for violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction.

However, on a subsequent day he moved for, and obtained 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 Armroyd, at this term.