Conard v. Atlantic Ins. Co. of NY

delivered the opinion of the Court.—

This is an action of trespass, de bonis asportatis, brought iu the Circuit Court, for the district of Pennsylvania, by the Atlantic Insurance Company, to recover against the< defendant John Conárd, the Marshál .of that district, the value of certain teas, shipped on board' -the ships Addison and Superior, and levied upon by him, upon an execution, in favour of the United States, against one Edward Thomsoñ, as the property of the latter. The real question in the cause is, whether the Insurance Company or the United States, are entitled to the teas or their…