Averill v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Error.to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York. An act of Congress of February 24th, 1807,* enacts: “That when any prosecution shall be commenced on account of the seizure of any ship or vessel, goods, wares, or merchandise, made by any collector or other officer, .under any act of Congress, authorizing such seizure, and judgment shall be given ■for the claimant or claimants, if it shall appear to the court before whom such prosecution shall bo tried, that…
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Error.to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York. An act of Congress of February 24th, 1807,* enacts: “That when any prosecution shall be commenced on account of the seizure of any ship or vessel, goods, wares, or merchandise, made by any collector or other officer, .under any act of Congress, authorizing such seizure, and judgment shall be given ■for the claimant or claimants, if it shall appear to the court before whom such prosecution shall bo tried, that there was a ¡reasonable cause of seizure, the s.aid court shall cause a proper ■ certificate or entry to bo made…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Judgments rendered in the Circuit Court, in any civil action against a collector or other officer of the revenue, for any act done by him in the performance of his official duty, or for the recovery of any money exacted by or paid to him, which shall have beeu paid into the treasury, may, at the instance of either party, be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in this court upon writ of error, without regal'd to the sum or value in controversy in such' action. *
Certain personal property belonging to the plaintiff, consisting of four hundred and three gallons of whisky and the barrels in which…
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