United States v. Stansbury
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the 'United States for the district of-Mary tend. This was , an action of debt, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland, at May Term 1825, to recover 3067 dollars, being the debt, damage's, costs, and charges, contained in a certain judgment between the same parties, recovered by the United States in the District Court of Maryland,’at March 'Term 1819. The original judgment wás rendered upon a joint and…
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of the 'United States for the district of-Mary tend. This was , an action of debt, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland, at May Term 1825, to recover 3067 dollars, being the debt, damage's, costs, and charges, contained in a certain judgment between the same parties, recovered by the United States in the District Court of Maryland,’at March 'Term 1819. The original judgment wás rendered upon a joint and several bond of-these defendants, given- for duties on an importátion by Sheppar.d, and was rendered for 3050 dollars,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This was ah action of debt on a judgment which had been rendered in favour of the United States, against .Thomas Sheppard, and the two defendants in, error. •- The marshal returned, as to Sheppard, non est inventus. -The other two defendants pleaded that they’were sureties to Sheppard, in the bond on’ which the forme» judgment was rendered; that the United States took out a c«. sa. on that judgment, against Sheppard, by virtue of which he was imprisoned; whereupon William H. Crawford, the Sécretary of the Trea'sury of the'United States, released the said Sheppard from execution,, on his…
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