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RING ET AL. v. MAXWELL

58 U.S. 147 (1854)

17 How. 147

ZEBEDEE RING, DAVID A. BOKEE, ROBERT S. HONE, AND JOHN P. HONE, EXECUTORS OF PHILIP HONE, DECEASED, AND CORNELL S. FRANKLIN, COMPLAINANTS, v. HUGH MAXWELL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Ring, for the complainants, and by Mr. Cushing, (attorney-general,) for the defendant.

Mr. Justice CURTIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before us, upon a certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. The certificate shows that a suit in equity is pending in that court, wherein persons who were the naval officer and surveyor of the port of New York, are complainants, and Hugh Maxwell, who was the collector of that port, is respondent, and that the...

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