United States v. Bryant
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE ALABAMA. This was an action at law brought by the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, against Henry Bryant and J. Y. Weekley, the complaint in which, filed August 8th, 1879, states that the plaintiffs .claim of the defendants 2,710 pine logs, Avith the use thereof during the detention.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE ALABAMA. This was an action at law brought by the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, against Henry Bryant and J. Y. Weekley, the complaint in which, filed August 8th, 1879, states that the plaintiffs .claim of the defendants 2,710 pine logs, Avith the use thereof during the detention. The bark-marks and stamps and sizes and value of the logs were set forth, and the times Avhen and places where they Avere cut. -With the complaint there was filed an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
This is not the case of an attachment against the property of a defendant, under § 915 of the Revised Statutes, but is a case where; under § 914, the forms and modes of proceeding are to conform, “ as near as may be,” to the forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time, in a like cause, in the courts of record of Alabama.
The suit is one for the recovery of personal chattels in specie, under section 2942 of the Code of Alabama. The affidavit for seizure is made, by the special agent .of the General Land Office, who.…
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