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CLIFTON v. THE UNITED STATES

45 U.S. 242 (1846)

4 How. 242

CHARLES CLIFTON, CLAIMANT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Meredith, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Cadwallader and Mr. Mason (Attorney-General), for the United States.

Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error from the judgment of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, affirming a judgment of the District Court of the same district.

The original suit was a libel of information, in rem, founded upon a seizure on land in the said district of some seventy-one cases of cloths and cassimeres imported into the United States, and alleged to have been forfeited.

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