Armstrong v. Toler
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the . Circuit Court of Pennsylvania. This was an aetion of assumpsit, brought by the defendant in error, Toler, against the plaintiff in error, Armstrong, to recover a sum of' money paid by Toler, on account .of.goods, the property of Armstrong and others, consigned to Toler, which had been seized and libelled in the District Court of Maine in the year 1814, as having been imported contrary to law.
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ERROR to the . Circuit Court of Pennsylvania. This was an aetion of assumpsit, brought by the defendant in error, Toler, against the plaintiff in error, Armstrong, to recover a sum of' money paid by Toler, on account .of.goods, the property of Armstrong and others, consigned to Toler, which had been seized and libelled in the District Court of Maine in the year 1814, as having been imported contrary to law. The goods were shipped during the late war with Great Britain, at St. Johns, in the province of New-Brunswick, for Armstrong, and other citizens and residents of the United States, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
The only point moved by the defendant’s counsel to the Court, was, that the evidence was not decisive in favour of the plaintiff. Tüe Court gave this opinion. The charge does not intimate that the testimony was conclusive, but leaves the case to the jury to be decided by them under the control of certain legal principles which are stated in the charge. To entitle the plaintiff in error to a judgment of reversal, he must show that some one of these; principles is erroneous to his prejudice.
Examination of the correctness of the Judge's charge.
The main object ofuhe charge is to state to the jury…
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