United States v. Gratiot
Supreme Court of the United States
■ ON a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Illinois. On the first day of September, 1SS4, the defendants entered into the following bond to the United States, having executed the same under their respective hands and seals: “ Know all men by these presents, that we, J. P. B. Gratiot, Robert Burton, D. B. Moorehouse and Charles S. Hempstead, are holden, and stand firmly bound unto the United States of America, or their…
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■ ON a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Illinois. On the first day of September, 1SS4, the defendants entered into the following bond to the United States, having executed the same under their respective hands and seals: “ Know all men by these presents, that we, J. P. B. Gratiot, Robert Burton, D. B. Moorehouse and Charles S. Hempstead, are holden, and stand firmly bound unto the United States of America, or their certain attorney, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, current money of the United States, well and truly to be paid…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This case comes up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Illinois. It is an action of debt founded on a bond given by the defendants, to the United States, in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, bearing date the 1st of September, 1834, with a Condition thereunder written, for the performance of certain covenants or stipulations contained in an indenture referred to, and bearing even date with the bond* and called a license for smelting lead. The declaration sets out the condition of the bond, with the parts of the indenture referred to upon which breaches are…
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