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HAWTHORNE V. UNITED STATES, 11 U. S. 107 (1812)
11 U. S. 107U.S. Supreme Court
Hawthorne v. United States, 11 U.S. 7 Cranch 107 107 (1812)
Hawthorne v. United States
11 U.S. (7 Cranch) 107
Syllabus
This Court will grant a commission to take new evidence to be used here in a case of admiralty jurisdiction.
This was an appeal from the sentence of the District Court at New Orleans condemning the brig Clarissa Claiborne for violating a law of the United States. clubjuris
Hare moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record, in not sending up the depositions of the witnesses.