Clark v. United States

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action brought in the name of the United *157States of America for the use of the plaintiff, against the defendant and his securities on his official bond as collector of United States internal revenue for the second district of Georgia, alleging as a breach thereof, that the defendant, as collector aforesaid, by his deputy, did seize and detain from the plaintiff, two horses, one wagon and harness, five hundred pounds of hammered iron, and three bushels of dried fruit, from the 12th day of December, 1876, until the 28th day of March, 1877, when the same was…