Legal Opinion
Westcot v. Bradford
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
Decided October 15, 1824PublishedCited by 5 opinions
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of New Jersey.] In admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.
This is an appeal from a decree of the district court. The appellee filed in that court five several petitions, claiming a right to one fourth of the proceeds of the sales of the sloop Boxer, the sloop Tonkin, ten hogsheads of rum, and two barrels of oil, three hogsheads of rum. and the penalty of the coasting license bond of the Tonkin; which sloops, rum. and oil. had been seized, condemned, and sold, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, in pursuance, as the petitions allege, of information given to the collector by the petitioner, and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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