Saunders v. Gould
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS, case came before the court on a certificate of a division of opinion by the judges of the circuit court for the district' of Rhode Island.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
stated,
When this case was brought before bhe court, it was admitted by the counsel to be essentially the same with Gardner vs. Collins, reported in 2 Peters’s Rep. 58; but he relied on certain evidences which he exhibited of a settled judicial construction of the act on which the cause depended, different from that which had been made by this court. Had the court been satisfied on this point, that settled construction would undoubtedly have been respected. But the court was not convinced that the construction which, prevails in Rhode- Island is opposed to that which was made by this court. On…
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