Case Name: UNITED STATES v. The NEPTUNE
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1854
Citations: 27 F. Cas. 89
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. The NEPTUNE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 27
Pages: 89–89

Head Matter:
Case No. 15,865.
UNITED STATES v. The NEPTUNE.
[3 Am. Law Reg. 48.]
District Court, D. Maryland.
1854.
Shipping—Regulations—Penalties—How Recovehable.
This was a libel in rem filed against the vessel, and in personam against the captain and owners, to enforce, the penalties of the act of 1848, passed in reference to passenger vessels.
[Affirmed by circuit court; case unreported.]

Opinion:
GILES, District Judge,
decided that the said penalties could only be recovered by an action of debt on the common law side of the court, and not by libel; and that the .penalties were personal, and there was no lien on the vessel, and no remedy in rem, to enforce them.
Decree affirmed on both points, on appeal, by the circuit court. Taney, Circuit Justice. [Case unreported.]