Bottomley v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Error from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This is a writ of error to a judgment of condemnation in rem by the district court upon an information of seizure of two cases and one hundred and fourteen pieces of broadcloth seized on land at Boston, as forfeited to the United States, and claimed by James Bottomley, Jr., as owner.
Read the full summary
[Error from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This is a writ of error to a judgment of condemnation in rem by the district court upon an information of seizure of two cases and one hundred and fourteen pieces of broadcloth seized on land at Boston, as forfeited to the United States, and claimed by James Bottomley, Jr., as owner. The cause was tried by a jury, and a verdict found for the United States, upon the issue on the first count in the information, and upon this verdict the judgment of forfeiture was pronounced by the district judge. A bill of…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
Upon this bill of exceptions the questions, which have been argued at the bar, are: (1) Whether the evidence, as above stated, was properly admitted at the trial by the learned district judge. (2) Whether the points of law ruled by him, as to the effect of fraud and collusion in obtaining the permit, were correctly ruled.
In respect to the evidence admitted at the trial, assuming that the other points are in favor of the United States, I am clearly of opinion that the whole of it was admissible to substantiate the fraud. It divides itself into four heads: (1) The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Somes v. SkinnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1820
3Cited by40 opinions
- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Weiss v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941
- United States v. Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1905
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- People v. SeamanMichigan Supreme Court · 1895
35 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.