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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%
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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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