Bagnall v. Ableman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to Milwaukee circuit court. This was an action of debt commenced in the Milwaukee Circuit Court by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, to recover the sum of $1,250, the penalty prescribed by statute, for the re-arrest of the plaintiff for the same cause, after he had been discharged on habeas corpus.
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ERROR to Milwaukee circuit court. This was an action of debt commenced in the Milwaukee Circuit Court by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, to recover the sum of $1,250, the penalty prescribed by statute, for the re-arrest of the plaintiff for the same cause, after he had been discharged on habeas corpus. It appears from the record, that the plaintiff, a citizen and resident of this state, was, at the June term of the District Court of the United States for the District of Michigan, indicted for removing timber, to wit: two hundred thousand feet of pine lumber of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
Some of the questions involved in *166this case bave heretofore been considered and settled by this court, but there are others presented of considerable practical importance, which have not been directly determined.
It appears from the record that the plaintiff in error, Bagnall, was indicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Michigan, for removing timber, &c., from the lands of the United States in the said district of Michigan, at the June term of said court, 1853. Bagnall was a resident of this state, and on the 9th day of September, 1858, the…
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