United States v. Boecker
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. The United States sued Henry Boecker, principal, and C. Schorr and F. Altevoght, his sureties, in a distiller’s bond.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. The United States sued Henry Boecker, principal, and C. Schorr and F. Altevoght, his sureties, in a distiller’s bond. The bond was in the penal sum of $6000, and conditioned that, whereas the said Henry “is now, or intends, on and after the 4th day of May, 1869, to be a distiller within the second collection district of the State of Maryland, to wit, ai the corner of Hudson Street and Hast Avenue, situate in the town of Canton, county of Baltimore, and State aforesaid; now, if the said Henry shall in all respects faithfully comply with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The several provisions bearing on the subject, in the act of July 20th, 1868, under which the bond sued on in this case was taken, show the importance attached by the statute to the place as designated in the notice required to be given by the distiller before commencing business. Here the bond, it is to be presumed, followed the notice. The designation of the place is made important to the distiller, to his sureties, and to the government, in several respects. If the place be not as designated iu the notice the distiller is outside of the law and liable to the penalties denounced by the…
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