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United States v. Schooner Sally of Norfolk, The U.S. 406 (1805)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0032 and id is 1 raw text is: 406 SUPREME COURT V. S. UNXTED STATES THE UNITED STATES v. SCHOONER SALLY V. ScnooWZs OF NORFOLK. SALLY. VTHIS was a libel in the district court of the Ujiited The question States, for Maryland district, gainst the schooner Sally of forfeiture of aessel, under of Norfolk, and cargo, Elias De Butts claimant, seized the act of con- by the collector of the port of Nottingham, as forfeited gress against under the act of congress prohibiting the slave trade. Pro. the slave trade, 3.p. 22. Marcb 22d, 1794. is of admiralty and maritine jtirisdiction. In the district court the vessel and cargo were acquitted on the merits, which decree wa , on appeal, affirmed in the circuit court ; whereupon the United States sued out the present writ of error. -The error assigned was that the cause was of common law, and not of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; But the court, upon the authority of the case of the United States v. La Vengeance, 3 Dallas, 297. withouf argument, a~tmed the decree. BAILIFE V. TiPPiNG. Quere whether the courts of the U. States have jurisdic- tion in cases between aliens. BAILIFF v. TIPPING. THE only question in this case would have been whe- ther one alien could sue another alien in the courts of the United States. The circuit court for the Kentucky dis- trict was of opinion that they had no jurisdiction in such a case., A citation • must accom. But the writ of error was dismissed for want of a cita- pany the writ tion. of error. See ante, p. 263, the opinion of the court in the case of Mason, v. ship Blaireau.

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