Case ID: f-cas_18/html/0049-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BETTS, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 10,149.
    The NEW EAGLE.
    [Blatchf. Pr. Cas. 196.] 
    
    District Court, S. D. New York.
    July 28. 1862.
    Prize — Enemy Property.
    Vessel and cargo condemned as enemy property.
    In admiralty.
    
      
       [Reported by Samuel Blatchford, Esq.]
    
   BETTS, District Judge.

This vessel and cargo were captured by the United States mortar-boat Mathew Vassar, May 6, 1862, in the Gulf of Mexico. The sloop was taken to Ship Island, and appropriated to the use of the United States, and the cargo was transported to New York, and was here arrested and condemned by default. The vessel was sailing: under the confederate flag, and she and her cargo were owned in the seceded states, and were accordingly enemy property. Both, upon the legal proofs before the court, are lawful pi-ize of war, and are condemned, as such, to forfeiture.