THE HIRAM

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14 U.S. 440 (1816)

1 Wheat. 440

4 L.Ed. 131

The Hiram. — CORNTHWAIT ET AL. Claimants.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 22, 1816.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pinkney, for the appellants and claimants.

Dexter, for the respondents and captors.


MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

When the claimants, in this case, applied to the circuit court to be let in to farther proof, for the purpose of showing their ignorance of the fact that the Hiram sailed under the protection of a British license, the judge of that court considered the agreement of the parties that these causes should depend on the fate of Griffith's claim, under which agreement...

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