Court Opinion

ID: 9416277
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:37:16.532931+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:46:48.159720
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Livingston, L
I concur in the. opinion of the Chief Justice.' Considering Sweden an ally of Great Britain, in the war- which the latter ivas carrying on *407in the peninsula, either the king of Sweden himself might send transports with provisions for the use. of the British army, while engaged in any common enterprise, or his subjects might lawfully aid in such transportation, without a violation of their neutral character as it regarded the United States. If the American government had asserted the right of capturing and condemning Swedish vessels, or depriving them of their freight, on the ground oh which it has been denied to the Commercen, I am not certain that Sweden would not have thought it a very serious aggression, and would not have had a right to consider it, if persisted in, as an act of hostility.