Case Name: The PRINCE LEOPOLD
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1863-07-17
Citations: 19 F. Cas. 1335
Docket Number: 
Parties: The PRINCE LEOPOLD.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 19
Pages: 1335–1335

Head Matter:
Case No. 11,429.
The PRINCE LEOPOLD.
[Blatchf. Pr. Cas. 647.]
Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
July 17, 1863.
Pjuze — Enemy Profekty.
Decree of the district court, condemning vessel and cargo as enemy property, and acquitting them on the charge of violating fie blockade, affirmed.
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New York.]
In admiralty.
[Affirming Case No. 11,428.]

Opinion:
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
This vessel was captured in the port of New York, on the 21st of August, 1861, by government officers. She was laden at the port of New-bera, North Carolina, with spirits of turpentine, and left that port on the 23d of July, 1861. There was no actual blockade of New-bern at the time. The vessel belongs to H. A. McLeod, a British subject, but resident in Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of capture, and the cargo to A. Wade, a resident of Newbern, and a citizen of North Carolina. The vessel and cargo were condemned as enemy property in the court below [Case No. 11,428], and acquitted on the charge of breaking the blockade. Upon the doctrine of the cases recently decided in the supreme court of the United States, the decree must be affirmed.