The United States v. Gordon and Others

11 U.S. 287

7 Cranch 287

3 L.Ed. 347

THE UNITED STATES

v.

GORDON AND OTHERS.

February 10, 1813

Absent. LIVINGSTON, J. and TODD, J.

THIS was an action of debt brought in the District Court of the United States for the district of Virginia, upon an embargo-bond, dated the 2d of November, 1808, conditioned to reland the cargo of the Essex, in some port of the United States, the danger of the seas only excepted.

The Defendants, among other things, pleaded the following plea, viz.; 'And the said Defendants for further plea why the United States ought not to have and maintain the said action, say, that the…