Seaman Field v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the district court of.the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. In the district court of the United States, on the 30th of March 1831, the attorney of the district filed a petition of complaint, on behalf of the United States, against Seaman Field, Samuel J. Peters, and Thomas Toby, residing in the city of New Orleans, Syndics of L. E. Brown ; stating that one Lewis E. Brown, of .the city of New Orleans, on the 27th of October 1829, executed a…
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IN error to the district court of.the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. In the district court of the United States, on the 30th of March 1831, the attorney of the district filed a petition of complaint, on behalf of the United States, against Seaman Field, Samuel J. Peters, and Thomas Toby, residing in the city of New Orleans, Syndics of L. E. Brown ; stating that one Lewis E. Brown, of .the city of New Orleans, on the 27th of October 1829, executed a certain bond to the United States in the sum of 1366 dollars 20 cents; and suit having been ■brought in the said bond,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr Chief' Justice Marshall
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a writ of error from a judgment óf the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, rendered on the- petition of the United States against Seaman Field and others, the plaintiffs in error, as syndics or assignees of Lewis E‘. Brown, an insolvent debtor. . The petition states, that Lewis E. Brown, being indebted to the United States on a certain bond, on which judgment had been obtained for a sum staled in the .petition, became insolvent on or about the 20th of April 1830, and made a voluntary assignment…
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