MEREDITH v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. TheUnited States instituted an action of assumpsit against Jonathan Meredith and Thomas Ellicott, to recover from them, as the assignees of Samuel Smith, James A. Buchanan, and Thomas A. Buchanan, formerly trhding as merchants under the firm of S. Smith and Buchanan, a certain amount due to the -United States for duties; the United States' claiming a right of priority of payment against the…
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IN error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. TheUnited States instituted an action of assumpsit against Jonathan Meredith and Thomas Ellicott, to recover from them, as the assignees of Samuel Smith, James A. Buchanan, and Thomas A. Buchanan, formerly trhding as merchants under the firm of S. Smith and Buchanan, a certain amount due to the -United States for duties; the United States' claiming a right of priority of payment against the estate in the hands of the trustees. The deed of trust tó the plaintiffs in error was executed by S. Smith and Buchanan,…
1Opinion of the Court
.Mr. Justice- Story
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland; The original action was assumpsit brought by the United States against the plaintiffs in error, who were the original defendants, to recover from them,as assignees' under a general assignment of the property of the firm of Smith and Buchanan, the .amount of certain duties alleged, to be due from the said firm upon certain importations in the. brig Unicorn and. the ship Brazilian, out of the funds in the hands of the assignees, upon, the ground of an asserted .right…
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