United States v. Robertson
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came before the court on a certificate of division from the judges of the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland.
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This case came before the court on a certificate of division from the judges of the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland. The facts, including those stated in the opinion of the court, were the following: In the circuit court, at January term 1828, the United Stat< t instituted an action of debt, on a bond, executed on the 15th of July 1820, by Thomas Robertson, Levin Ballard, Arnold E. Jones, Mathias Deshiell, Charles Jones, Marcey Maddux, William Done, George W. Jackson and John H. Bell, of Somerset county, in the state of Maryland, in the penal sum of $100,000. The bond and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This suit was brought in the court of the United States for the fourth circuit and district of Maryland, on the following bond :
Know all men by these presents, that we, Thomas Robertson, Levin Ballard, Arnold E. Jones, Mathias Dashiell, Charles Jones, Marcey Maddux, William Done, George W. Jackson and John H. Bell, all of Somerest county and state of Maryland, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, current money of the United States, to be paid to the said United States,…
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