GRATIOT v. UNITED STATES


45 U.S. 80 (1846)

4 How. 80

CHARLES GRATIOT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Jones and Mr. Coxe, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Mason, Attorney-General, for the United States.


Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is now before us upon exceptions, taken upon its trial in the Circuit Court, to the instructions which were given by the court, and such as it refused to give to the jury. We do not think them well founded. When the instructions were given and refused, the only matters in controversy were items 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, in General Gratiot's set-off. The 4th, 9th...

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