Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fourth Circuit (Volume 3); Most of Them Since Chief Justice Waite Came Upon the Bench and of Selected Cases in Admiralty and Bankruptcy, Decided in the District Courts of That Circ (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... Statement of the case. against the distillery, and against these people as distillers, on the mere presumption that the fraud was committed at the distillery. In this conviction I believe that the verdict of the jury was in accordance with the evidence, and I must decline to award a new trial. I am well persuaded that uo jury will ever find a different verdict. L. L. Lewis, United Stales Attorney, for the United States. John S. Wise and John Lyon, for the defendants. United States Circuit Court, District of South Carolina. W. H. Mauldin, Of South Carolina, V. Jesse Carll, Of New York. Whether an attachment can issue from a court of (he United States against the property of a citizen of another State, he not being in the State, at the suit of a citizen of the State. The case was a suit brought for the recovery of damages for an alleged breach of contract in the purchase of a cargo of lumber. In accordance with the practice of the State court, which has been held to have been carried into the United States court by force of the provisions of the act of Congress of 1872, the process by attachment has been heretofore referable to any United States court since that enactment in suits of that character. In the case before the court warrant of attachment was issued to the marshal, who arrested the schooner Fi ances and her cargo at Georgetown, S. C, seeking to attach the interest of Jesse Carll, a part owner of the vessel and the defendant in the action. The provisions of the 1st section of the act of 1875 re-enacted the law of 1789, which reads as follows: No civil suit shall be brought before either of the said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other Vol. in.--1G Order of court. district than that whereof he is an inhabitan...