United States v. Woolsey

(BETTS, District Judge)..

The declaration is demurred to as insufficient in the particulars that it does not make-a ease of which the court can take cognizance and that it does not show that any offence was committed by the defendant.. The action is in debt to recover a penalty of' $320,000 for a .violation of the embargo act of December 22, 1807 [2 Stat. 451], and the-act supplementary thereto of January 0, 1808 [Id. 453]. The declaration avers that the defendant on the 10th day of January, 1808, at the port of the city of Jersey in the-state of New Jersey, to wit, at the city and. port of…