Case Name: Simpson vs. Nadeau
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1801-06
Citations: 2 Hayw. 141
Docket Number: 
Parties: Simpson vs. Nadeau.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 141–142

Head Matter:
Simpson vs. Nadeau.

Opinion:
T%ER curiam,
The British and French nations being at war» a Frenchman captured the plaintiff, a citizen of the United States of America, carried his vessel and cargo into a Spanish port, and disposed of both without condemnation. '
Per curiam. The captor is suable only in the court of admiralty, notwithstanding the argument, so much pressed by the plaintiff5^ counsel, that the prise court of the admiralty could proceed only where the thing taken was in its custody or power; and as to the instance court of the admiralty, that its jurisdiction was concurrent with the courts of common law; and notwithstanding another argument also used by him, that according tó Che six carpenters5, case and other cases, the defendant's not car* tying the vessel into port for condemnation, as his commission required, shews tfio anima the seizure was made, which was not tp treat her as a prize ; consequently she was not taken asfriz^ bat by a trespass or wrong.
Haywood, for the Plaintiff,
1 Robinson's Reports, 100, 119.
2 Bl. Com. 107. 1 Dou. 98, 99.
2 Erown, 220.