United States v. Tillotson

This cause comes before us from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New-York; as unon a bill of exceptions taken to the opinion of the Court, upon a trial before a jury upon the matters in issue. In reality no such trial was had ; but the case assumed this shape by the agreement of the parties, in order to have the opinion of the Court upon certain questions of law'. We must, however, consider the case exclusively upon principles applicable to it as a bill of exceptions taken at a real trial. a

Upon the argument in this Court, various important questions have been elaborately…