Legal Opinion

Hunt v. United States

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts

Decided May 15, 1812PublishedCited by 10 opinions

[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.]

1Opinion of the Court

STORY, Circuit Justice.

This is a writ of error to the district court of Massachusetts district. The original action was on a bond for the payment of duties, in which one J. B. Frazier and one Ephraim Wilcox and the plaintiff in error [Augustus Hunt], on the 11th of November, 1807, became jointly and severally bound to the United States in the penal sum of $2,000, conditioned to pay on or before the 11th day of August, 1808, the duties of certain goods, which were ascertained to the amount of $576. The plaintiff in error, after oyer of the bond, pleaded in bar in the court below, that on the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Pain v. PackardNew York Supreme Court · 1816
  2. King v. BaldwinNew York Court of Chancery · 1817
  3. People v. JansenNew York Supreme Court · 1811
  4. Powell v. WatersNew York Supreme Court · 1819
  5. Rathbone v. WarrenCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1813

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. King v. BaldwinNew York Court of Chancery · 1817
  2. Smith v. DoakTexas Supreme Court · 1848
  3. Williams v. CovillaudCalifornia Supreme Court · 1858
  4. Bank of Steubenville v. LeavittOhio Supreme Court · 1831
  5. Grafton Bank v. KentSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1827

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