(*) Spanish law.
Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour died in the midst of this case's proceedings. One result of this case is that Lieutenant Gedney of the USS Washington was awarded salvage rights. The majority opinion in this case was written by Joseph (+) Story and discarded Attorney General Henry D. Gilpin's application of the Adams-Onis Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty, siding with Roger Sherman Baldwin and John Quincy Adams' arguments that the subjects of this case were not considered property under (*) Spanish law. For 10 points, name this Taney court decision which ruled on the freedom of slave mutineers.
Associate Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour died in the midst of this case's proceedings.
United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner {Amistad}