Otis v. Bacon
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Supreme Judicial Court of the state of Massachusetts, in a case involving the construetion of an act of congress, and the justification of an officer of the United States, claiming justification under such act: the decision of the Court below being against the justification thus set up.
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ERROR to the Supreme Judicial Court of the state of Massachusetts, in a case involving the construetion of an act of congress, and the justification of an officer of the United States, claiming justification under such act: the decision of the Court below being against the justification thus set up. The case was this: Bacon, the Defendant1 in ,error, having obtained permission to import a cargo of flour from Baltimore into the port of Barnstable, arrived with his cargo at a place called the Mud-hole in the district and port of Barnstable on the 2d of October, 1808, and on the 3d obtained from…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, J.
This is an appeal from the Supreme judicial Court pf. the commonwealth of Massachusetts, under the 25th section of the judiciary law. The judgment complained of was rendered in an actioii of trover and conversion,brought by the Appellee, against Joseph Otis, Crowell and. the Appellant for taking and converting a quantity of flour, the property of the Appellee. The trial took place between the Appellee and Appellant, Joseph Otis having died after the commencement of the suit 5 and the process not having been served on Crowell. The verdict having been hi favor of the Plaintiff, the Appellee,…
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