The Prince Leopold

19 F. Cas. 1335, 1863 U.S. App. LEXIS 517

• Court: U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
• Decided: July 17, 1863
• Status: Published

Opinion

NELSON, Circuit Justice.

This vessel was captured in the port of New York, on the 21st of August, 1861, by government officers. She was laden at the port of New-bera, North Carolina, with spirits of turpentine, and left that port on the 23d of July, 1861. There was no actual blockade of New-bern at the time. The vessel belongs to H. A. McLeod, a British subject, but resident in Charleston, South Carolina, at the time of capture, and the cargo to A. Wade, a resident of Newbern, and a citizen of North Carolina. The vessel and cargo were condemned as enemy property in the court below [Case No. 11,428], and acquitted on the charge of breaking the blockade. Upon the doctrine of the cases recently decided in the supreme court of the United States, the decree must be affirmed.