FIELD v. UNITED STATES


34 U.S. 182 (____)

9 Pet. 182

SEAMAN FIELD AND OTHERS, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr Key, for the plaintiffs in error; and by Mr Butler, attorney-general, for the United States.


Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a writ of error from a judgment of the district court of the United States for the district of Louisiana, rendered on the petition of the United States against Seaman Field and others, the plaintiffs in error, as syndics or assignees of Lewis E. Brown, an insolvent debtor. The petition states, that Lewis E. Brown, being indebted to the United States on a certain bond, on which judgment had been...

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