M'Lane v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the decree of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Delaware. The material facts of the case appear in the following agreed statement made in the circuit .court, and brought up to the supreme court of the United States, to wit:. “ On motion of C. A. Rodney, on behalf of Colonel' A. M’Lane, collector of the Delaware district, for a distribution of the forfeiture decreed by the court, of which the said A. M’Lane claims one full moiety of the…
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APPEAL from the decree of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Delaware. The material facts of the case appear in the following agreed statement made in the circuit .court, and brought up to the supreme court of the United States, to wit:. “ On motion of C. A. Rodney, on behalf of Colonel' A. M’Lane, collector of the Delaware district, for a distribution of the forfeiture decreed by the court, of which the said A. M’Lane claims one full moiety of the whole exacted from, and paid by the claimant, the following statement of facts is agreed to, and submitted to the court by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stoky
This'case comes before the court upon an application made by Allen M’Lane, collector of the district of Delaware, to the circuit court of that district, for a decree of distribution of the' forfeiture accruing from the seizure and condemnation of the ' ship. Good Friends and cargo, one moiety whereof is claimed by1 the said collector, as seizing officer; there having been a remission of the forfeiture by the secretary of the treasury, .under the *424authority of the act of congress of the 29th of July 1813, ch. 33. Upon the conditions required by that act the only controversy existing in the…
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