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FENEMORE v. UNITED STATES

3 U.S. 357 (____)

3 Dall. 357

FENEMORE, Plaintiff in Error, versus The UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued at the last term, upon an issue joined, after an assignment of the general errors, and the plea of in nullo est erratum, by Ingersoll and E. Tilghman, for the Plaintiff in error, and by Lee (the Attorney General) for the United States.

On the 7th of August 1787, the Judges delivered their opinions to the following effect:

CHASE, Justice.

The judgment of the Circuit Court ought to be affirmed. Here is the case of a plain fraud. A man sets up a claim, exhibits colourable vouchers to support it, deceives the public officer, obtains a certificate that his claim is just, and, finally, converts that certificate into transferable stock. The transaction is...

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