Case Name: HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNE v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1812-02-20
Citations: 7 Cranch 107
Docket Number: 
Parties: HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNE v. THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: Present....Ml the Judges. .
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 107–108

Head Matter:
HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNE v. THE UNITED STATES.
Present....Ml the Judges. .
This Court take new evi dence to be . used here, m mSty0Jurisdiction,
THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the District. Court, át New Orleans, condemning the Brig Claiborne, for violating a law of the United States.
Hare, Moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record, in not sending up the tlejlositions of the witnesseses.

Opinion:
Marshall, Ch, J.
What prevents you from producing the witnesses here, or taking their depositions de novo,
Hare, Suggested a doubt, whether cases fot1 violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction,
However, on a subsequent day he moved •for', and bbtained a commission to take the depositions of witnesses at New Orleans, to be*used on the trial in this Court, at .the next term.
A like commission was granted in the case of Williams and Jlrmroyd, at this term.