United States v. Jarvis
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Maine.] This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment which had been rendered in the district court in favor of the respondent, on the 1st day of December, 1846. [Case No. 15,468.] The original action in which that judgment was rendered, was one of debt on an official bond given by the defendant [Leonard Jarvis], to secure his fidelity as navy agent, at the naval station in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
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[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Maine.] This was a writ of error to reverse a judgment which had been rendered in the district court in favor of the respondent, on the 1st day of December, 1846. [Case No. 15,468.] The original action in which that judgment was rendered, was one of debt on an official bond given by the defendant [Leonard Jarvis], to secure his fidelity as navy agent, at the naval station in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The breach assigned was not accounting for $1,700 of money, and on this an issue was joined. It appears in the record, not…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Justice.
The objection to the consideration of the question on the merits in this case, whether the ruling of the judge was correct or not, must, I fear, prevail, under the state in which we find this record. The report at the end of the record made and signed by the judge, is not in the usual form of a bill of exceptions, elsewhere; though it is understood to have been at times, for some years, employed in this district. But the practice here has not been uniform, as may be seen in the original record in Trafton v. U. S. [Case No. 14,135]. The form there as in England, is,…
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