Enders v. Brune
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Richmond Chancery Court, where Bruñe (suing for the benefit of the house of Van Kapjf fy Bruñe) filed his bill against Shelton 8p Co. and Enders and Ciarle,-their trustees.
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This was an appeal from the Richmond Chancery Court, where Bruñe (suing for the benefit of the house of Van Kapjf fy Bruñe) filed his bill against Shelton 8p Co. and Enders and Ciarle,-their trustees. The bill states, that Shelton 8p Co. imported in the ship Clara, certain goods and merchandize, from Bremen to Baltimore: that at the particular instance and request of the said Shelton 8p Co. and under the rule of the Custom House, requiring that the obligors in the duty bonds should reside in Baltimore, the complainant was induced to become bound in bonds for the duties on the goods so…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Carr
delivered his opinion.
The case made by the bill is briefly this: that Shelton fy Co. merchants of Richmond, imported some linens from Bremen to Baltimore; that they requested the plaintiffs to enter into bonds with the collector of the port, for the duties accruing to the United States on these goods; that in compliance with this request, the plaintiff, Bnme, executed, with sureties, these bonds to the collector, which the plaintiffs have discharged; that by this payment, the plaintiffs have acquired the right, as well under the laws of Congress, as by the general principles of…
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