United States v. One Sorrel Horse
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an information against a horse, seized as forfeited for having been imported or brought from Canada into the United States in violation of. the revenue laws thereof.
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This was an information against a horse, seized as forfeited for having been imported or brought from Canada into the United States in violation of. the revenue laws thereof. The facts constituting the alleged importation, as specially found by the jury, under the direction of the court, were, that the horse was driven by the claimant, harnessed before another horse,' in a single sleigh containing no goods, wares, or merchandize subject to duty, from Canada into the district of Vermont, not for sale or to be kept in the country for use, but in the prosecution of a journey to the stale of…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentiss, J.
The forfeiture claimed in this case, if it can be claimed under any of the provisions of the revenue laws, must be claimed under the provisions of the act of 1821. The ninety fourth section of the act of 1799 is confined, by its terms, to importations of “ horses, cattle, sheep, swine, or other beasts,” by water, in vessels or boats; and the one hundred and sixth section of the same act is applicable only to cases of “ vessels, boats, rafts, and carriages,” arriving in districts on the northern and northwestern boundaries of the United States, “ containing goods, Wares, or merchandise subject…
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