United States v. Knight
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. The United States, in 1838, instituted an action of debt against the defendants in error, on a bond executed by them on the 30th day of January, 1S3S, for the sum of seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and four cents; the condition of which was as follows: “The condition of the abové written obligation is such, that whereas the said Jacob and Benjamin Knight have been and now…
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. The United States, in 1838, instituted an action of debt against the defendants in error, on a bond executed by them on the 30th day of January, 1S3S, for the sum of seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and four cents; the condition of which was as follows: “The condition of the abové written obligation is such, that whereas the said Jacob and Benjamin Knight have been and now aré imprisoned in the prison at Portland, in the said Maine district, by virtue of an execution issued against them on a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barbour
This casé came before us upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States,'for the District of. Maine.
It was an action brought upon a bond given to the United States, in the year 1S38, for the liberties of the'jail yard in Portland. The ' general issue was pleaded, with leave to give special matter' in ev.i-dence. The condition Of the. bond,'after reciting that Jacob Knight and Benjamin Knight have been, and now are, imprisoned in thé prison at Portland, in Maine District, by virtue of an execution issued, against them, on a judgment Obtained against them by the' United States,,…
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