EX PARTE DAVENPORT


31 U.S. 661 (____)

6 Pet. 661

EX PARTE JOHN A. DAVENPORT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Taney, attorney-general.


Mr. Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a motion for a mandamus to the district judge for the southern district of New York, directing him to restore to the record a plea of tender, which had been filed, together with a plea of non est factum, by Davenport, in a suit on a custom house bond for the payment of duties, brought against him in that court; and which had been ordered by the court to be struck from the docket as a nullity. As the allowance...

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