Wood v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for-the dis trict of Maryland. At the District Court of the United States, for the district of, Maryland, on the'97th day of December, 1839, the United States' filed an information claiming a forfeiture of tWenty-two pieces of cloth, of ; the value of twenty-five hundred dollars.- The. information .contained nine counts..
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for-the dis trict of Maryland. At the District Court of the United States, for the district of, Maryland, on the'97th day of December, 1839, the United States' filed an information claiming a forfeiture of tWenty-two pieces of cloth, of ; the value of twenty-five hundred dollars.- The. information .contained nine counts.. Afterwards, and before the trial of the cause before a jury, a discontinuance was entered by the district-attorney of. the United States, of the first, second,-third, .fourth, and fifth counts. The cáse was tried before a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
delivered the opinion of the Court.. This is a writ of error from the judgment of the Circuit Court' of the district of Maryland, affirming, piro formé, a judgment of the District Court of the same district. •
The original suit was a.,libel of information, in rem, upon a seizure, upon land, in the said district, of twenty pieces of cloths imported into the United States, and alleged to be forfeited. 'The libel Contained a number of counts; but thát alone which is necessary to be here stated, is the count founded Upon the sixty-sixth section of the revenue collection act of 1799, chapter 128,…
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