Clifton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for East Pennsylvania. The facts are fully set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice .NELSON
delivered the opinion of Jie court.
This is a writ of error from the judgment of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, affirming a judgment of the District Court of the same district.
The- original suit was a libel of information, in rent, founded upon a seizure on land in the said district of some seventy-one cases of cloths and cassimeres imported into the United States, and alleged to have been forfeited.
The libel contained thirteen counts, resting upon different sections of the several acts of Congress regulating the collection of duties bri imports…
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