United States v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
This cause was brought before this court upon a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York.
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This cause was brought before this court upon a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. The defendant was taken, on the 16th of July 1819, in execution, by the marshal, upon a judgment obtained against him at the suit of the United States, in the district court for the southern district of New York, and committed to the custody of the sheriff of the city and county of New York, under an act of the legislature of the state of New York, passed April 1813,(a) and subsequently received his Certificate of discharge under…
1Opinion of the Court
*The Court
directed the following certificate to be sent to the circuit court.
Certificate. — This cause came on to be heard, on the transcript of the record of the United States court for the second circuit, and southern district of New York, on the question on which the judges of that court were divided, and which was certified to this court : on consideration whereof, this court is of opinion, that the said Joseph Wilson, who was in execution under a judgment obtained *by the United States, is not entitled to a discharge of his person, under the act of the state of New York, entitled, “an…
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