Stearns v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
[Error to the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont. [This was an action of debt by the United. States against Joseph Stearns and others. From a judgment in the district court in favor of tlie United States (case unreported), defendants brought error.]
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Justice.
This case comes up on a writ of error to the district court of Vermont. It was an action of debt brought by the United States, as assignees of the sheriff of the county of Bennington, and state of Vermont, on a bond given for the liberties of the prison; the action being for an escape in violation of the bond.
The defendants set up as their defence: 1st. That the judgment recovered against Stearns, and upon which he was committed to prison, was as bail for one William S. Cardell, who was prosecuted in the Ben-nington county court of the state of Vermont, for a penalty…
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