Case Name: Creamer vs. Tokely
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 188
Docket Number: 
Parties: Creamer vs. Tokely.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 190–190

Head Matter:
Creamer vs. Tokely.
Hill. 2 Car.
TRESPASS for breaking a vessel and carrying away, her fails. The defendant justified under a warrant from the Admiralty-Court, to arrest the vessel, and in salvo custodire, by force of which he entered the vessel and carried away the sails, which is the same trespass.
Athow, Serj.
The breaking the vessel is not answered, therefore he had no authority to carry away any thing.

Opinion:
Curia.
The plea is well enough, for the entry in the vessel is a breaking in law, as clausum fregit, &c.
2. He may carry the sails away; for that is the usual manner of proceeding, which is supported by reason, for he cannot salvo cuslodire her, without taking the sails away. Codb. 385.