Emerson's Heirs v. Hall
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Hist. IN ERROR FROM TIIE SUPREME COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Eastern Hist. IN ERROR FROM TIIE SUPREME COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. This case was taken by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States, from the judgment pronounced by this court, at the March term, 1S37. See 11 Louisiana Reports, 1. 13 Peters’ Reports, 409. The question presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, was, whether this court gave a proper construction to an act of congress, directing certain moneys arising from the forfeiture of a vessel and her cargo, prosecuted by B. Chew, collector, William…
1Opinion of the Court
J\£r. Justice <M‘Lean,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the Slate of Louisiana, under the 25th section of the judiciary act.
The defendant here, as plaintiff in the Court of Probates at New-Orleans, recovered a judgment in 1830, against the 'estate of Wm. Emerson, for seventeen hundred and eighty-eight dollars, sixty-two cents; and the question in the case is, whether the heirs of Emerson shall be held responsible for the payment of this judgment, under the following circumstances.
In April, 1818, Emerson, being surveyor of the port of…
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