Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States Volume 2; V. 15
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States Volume 2; V. 15

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ...the George was equipped for a vovage of any duration. And here the evidence is irresistible to show that she was not. She had no dunnage, or platform, for the purpose of preserving the goods from damage by water, and nothing was stowed or packed in such a manner as to indicate preparation for a protracted vovage. Her sails and rigging were old, worn, and deficient in quantity, and her mainsail too large both for mast and boom. Her wood, and water, and provisions very scanty; and her crew, before the mast, not more than one half of what were necessary for a long and a winter's voyage.--. Add to this, that her captain is proved to have been a very young man, scarcely twenty-one years of age, altogether unknown to the shippers, and engaged only four days before the vessel's sailing. It cannot be believed that so valuable a cargo should have been destined for so long a voyage with such defective equipments; no court, upon such evidence, would Vol. II. N n 1817. have hesitated to avoid a policy on either vessel or The George. cargo. We, therefore, think, that her real destination must have been to some port in the vicinity of that at which her voyage commenced. How, then, was the cargo to be introduced? Here I regret that it is necessary to notice a part of the testimony of Gregory Vanhorne, which certainly casts a shade upon all the rest of his testimony. The George, it appears, had actually sailed under convoy of the Beaver as far as Etang Harbour. There the vessel lay in a secure port, under the protection of the Martin sloop of war, and at a place occasionally assigned as a place of rendezvous to vessels that were to sail under convoy. Yet Vanhorne swears that he heard the commander of the Martin expressly order the captain of the George to depart for the pl...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130871326
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130871320
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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