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BUCHANAN v. ALEXANDER

45 U.S. 20 (1846)

4 How. 20

McKRAN BUCHANAN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JAMES ALEXANDER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is one of six cases depending upon the same principle, which have been brought before this court by writs of error to the Circuit Superior Court for the county of Norfolk, State of Virginia, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Six writs of attachment were issued by a justice of the peace of the above county of Norfolk, by boarding-house keepers, against certain seamen of the...

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