Conard v. Pacific Ins. Co. of NY
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the United States, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, brought by the Pacific Insurance Company of New York, against John Conard, marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, brought by the Pacific Insurance Company of New York, against John Conard, marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs declared in the common form of trespass, specifying the goods and chattels seized and taken by the defendant, to wit: sundry packages of teas of the value, altogether, of upwards of sixty thousand dollars, and laying the damages at one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. To this declaration the defendant pleaded…
1Opinion of the Court
• Mr Justice Story
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case, upon all the leading points, presents the same factSjiarid .circumstances which were before this court in the cases of Conard v. The Atlantic Insurance Company, 1 Peters’s Sup. Rep. 386, and Conard v. Nicoll, 4 Peters’s Sup. Rep. 291. Those cases underwent the most deliberate consideration of the court, and we are entirely satisfied with the doctrines maintained in them. The present case has been submitted without argument, and contains, at large, the charge of the learned judge who presided at the trial; a practice which this…
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