Slocum v. Mayberry
Supreme Court of the United States
Error on a judgment rendered by the supreme court for the state of Rhode-Island. John Slocum, the plaintiff in error, was surveyor of the customs for the port of Newport, in RhodeIsland, and under the directions of the collector had seized the Venus, lying in that port with a cargo ostensibly bound to some other port in the United' States.
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Error on a judgment rendered by the supreme court for the state of Rhode-Island. John Slocum, the plaintiff in error, was surveyor of the customs for the port of Newport, in RhodeIsland, and under the directions of the collector had seized the Venus, lying in that port with a cargo ostensibly bound to some other port in the United' States. The defendants in error, who were owners of the cargo, brouglrt their writ of replevin in the state court of Rhode-Island for the restoration of the property. The defendant pleaded that the Venus was laden in the night, not under the inspection of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Ch. J. Marshall
delivered the opihion of the court, and after stating the facts, proceeded as follows:
In considering this case, the first question which presents itself is this: Has the constitution, or any law of the United States, been violated or misconstrued by the court of Rhode-Island in exercising its jurisdiction in this cause ?
The judiciary act gives to the federal courts exclusive cognizance of all seizures made on land or water. Any intervention of a state authority which, by taking the thing seized out of thé possession of the officer of the United States, might obstruct the…
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