Conard v. Nicoll
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error brought an action of trespass, in the court below, against the plaintiff in error, for a quantity of merchandize, consisting of teas, cassia, nankeens, &c. all of the value of one hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The defendant in error brought an action of trespass, in the court below, against the plaintiff in error, for a quantity of merchandize, consisting of teas, cassia, nankeens, &c. all of the value of one hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. Also for four ships, viz. the Addison, the Woodrop Sims, the Thomas Scattergood, and the Benjamin Rush, all of the value of one hundred thousand dollars. The defendant below pleaded, that he, as marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, had a writ of fieri…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin
This cause has been submitted without argument; It is in all its leading features, both in the points of law which arose and the evidence given at the trial, so similar to the case of Conard vs. The Atlantic Insurance Company, decided by this court at January term 1828, 1 Peters, 386, that we do not think it necessary to enter into an examination of the principles on which the judge submitted the cause to the jury. They appear to us to be in perfect accordance with the opinion delivered in that case, on great deliberation; of the entire correctness of which we do not entertain a doubt.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Conard v. Atlantic Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
3Cited by1 opinion
- John Conard, Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Error v. Francis H. Nicoll, in ErrorSupreme Court of the United States · 1830