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UNITED STATES v. WALKER

63 U.S. 299 (1859)

22 How. 299

THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JOHN J. WALKER THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. ARTHUR F HOPKINS. THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. RICHARD LEE FEARN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. J. Mason Campbell, upon a brief submitted by himself and Mr. Black, (Attorney General,) for the United States, and submitted on printed arguments by Mr. Smith for the defendants in error, and by Mr. Stanberry, who intervened as representing the late collector at Cincinnati, whose case was identical with that of the collector at Mobile.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before the court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. It was an action of debt brought by the United States upon the official bond of the defendant as collector of the customs for the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of Mobile. He gave the bond, with sureties, on the seventh...

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