Case Name: Sweet vs. Soorbeck
Court: Rhode Island Vice Admiralty Court
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1747-10-02
Citations: 1 Rec. V.A. Ct. (R.I.) 439
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sweet vs. Soorbeck
Judges: Chambers Russell Judge of Admiralty
Reporter: Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island, 1716-1752
Volume: 1
Pages: 439–439

Head Matter:
Sweet vs. Soorbeck
Charlestown Octr 2 1747

Opinion:
I Having duly Considered the Preparatory Examination and all the Papers and writings deliver'd by the Cap* of the Privateer to the master of the Prize and also the depositions given in open Court and Likewise weighed the arguments of the advocates as well on the part of the Captor as on the part of the Claimant. It appears to me that the Sloop and Cargo was not the Property of the Subjects of the King of Spain as Sett forth in Said Libel But the Property of Persons Living at the Island of Curracoa and Subjects of the States General. I do therefore Acquit Said Sloop and Cargo
Chambers Russell Judge of Admiralty
[Admiralty Papers, V, 134]