United States v. Murdock

The United States, through their law officer, instituted suit by attachment on the 14th June, 1858, in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, against U. A. Murdock, a resident of New York, to recover $21,162 60, amount of the duties on two cargoes of railroad iron, imported by him into this port in February and April, 1856, which iron was stored in a bonded warehouse here, aud fraudulently and illegally removed therefrom in January, 1857, by Thomas J. Casey, the keeper of . said warehouse, without the payment of the duties claimed.

The attachment was levied upon two other cargoes of iron…