Dewey v. United States

Citations

• 178 U.S. 510
• 20 S. Ct. 981
• 44 L. Ed. 1170
• 1900 U.S. LEXIS 1697

Syllabus

<p>In this case it was rightly decided in the court below, that in determining under the provisions of Eev. Stat. sec. 902, whether the Spanish vessels sunk or destroyed at Manila were of inferior or superior force to the American vessels engaged in that battle, the land batteries, mines and torpedoes, not controlled by those in charge of the Spanish vessels, hut which supported those vessels, were to he excluded altogether from consideration,-and that the size and armaments of the vessels sunk or destroyed, together with the number of men upon them, were alone to be regarded in determining the amount of the bounty to he awarded.</p>