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Gettings v. Burch's Administratix U.S. 372 (1815)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0014 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT U. S: THE to the unassuming conduct of Very whilst on board the PnOTIUS, Grotius. from which they inferred that he was thero SHEAFE, merely as a passenger, is entirely consistent with the IASTE.%. arrangement proved to have been made on board of the privatecr that lie was not to interfere in the navication of the vessel. Upon the whole it is the opinion of a majority of the Court that the validity of the capture of thoe Grotius as prize of war is sufficiently established by the evidence, and the captain having acquiesced in the subsequent ar- rangement as to the mode of sending in the vessel, she ought to have been condenined to the use of the captors. The dlecree of the Circuit Court condemning the ship Grofius, &-. to the United States is reversed; and the Court proreeding to) give such decree as the said Circuit Court ought have given, it is further decreed and order- ed that tle said ship be condemned as lawful prize to th captors.. I81s. GETTINGS -o. BURCH'S ADMINIsTRATIx. Feb 02% .ftbiseerror pn It is error i, THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Cir- the 'Orphan s Couil fhr the cult Court for the district of Columbia, aflirrning that of un1Y (r .the Orplhan's Court for the county of Washington. Washington in- the district of Columbia to On the 13th- of February, 1813, the Appellqe, 3ano ilgeide a cause -- ngainstthe an--urc,, filed in the Orphan's Couirt a petition or libel swer of a Dc- setting fol-th that by an order of that Court on the 11th feidiant, if thr ' 1 Answerhadnt of June. 1805, the property of the deceased in her hands beer. denicdby was delivered to the. Appellant who had become one of a repitin ;.her sureties in the administration bondin the year1803, 2nri ifthere be no evidmene i and who obtained an order of that Court to sell the the recording same. That he had made no return of sales, nor ren- con ausoier dercd any account of his proceeding, but still has tim property ini his possession, consisting of a negro woman and her four children ; and praying that the property may be re-delivered to her, she having been appointed guardian of the infant children of the deceased, and he

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