Skip to main content

“This cause (see ante, p. 91.) came on again to be heard at this Term, the respondent having put in a special answer; and upon a special replication thereto, the parties were at issue, and the points both of fact and law were argued at large by Hubbard for the libellant, and by L. Shaw for the respondent . . . The voyage originally undertaken by the ship Jenny, of which William Dorr was master, was a circuitous voyage from Boston to China, and back to the United States. The ship sailed from Boston on the voyage on the 5th of June, 1807. In the course of the voyage she stopped at Port Jackson, in the colony of New South Wales, and arrived at the Feegee Islands in the Pacific Ocean in May, 1808, and there disposed of the principal part of her cargo, and took on board a cargo of sandal wood; and sailed for China in September of the same year. Having sustained some injuries by tempestuous weather at a previous period, and the change of the monsoon approaching, it was judged proper before entering the Chinese seas, to stop for a supply of spars and other necessaries at the Island of Guam, one of the Ladrone islands.”

Case Citation

3 Mason 161