Andrews v. Poe

It appears that the failure to send up the record within the time prescribed by law, was, in this case, the fault of the clerk of the Circuit Court, and the motion to dismiss the appeal must, therefore, be overruled.

The objection to the deed of November 4th, 1862, for want of a stamp, comes too late.' The 95th section of the Act of Congress of 1862, which declared all instruments of writing “ invalid and of no effect,” unless duly stamped, was repealed by the Act of 1863, ch. 4, and in lieu thereof, it was provided that such instruments should not be received or used in evidence. The…